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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It's great to have King back to inject a little sanity into what has become a sea of craziness. Before replay was used there were bad calls all the time in football, several every game, often huge calls possibly turning wins into losses. Testaverde being called accross the goal line against Seattle, Rob Lytle being called down by contact in an Oakland-Denver playoff game, Mike Renfro being denied a touchdown in the AFC championship. This used to happen all the time, fans of the losing team would be incensed for a few days, and then you would settle down into your perpetual state of bitterness about the loss and the game would become part of sports lore.
As King points out with the advent of the replay review system we expect every call to be perfect and accept no error. But what the Oklahoma people have completely forgotten is that without replay the outcome of the game would have been the same. They have no reason to be more outraged than any other fan whose team was robbed by a bad call. And anyone who has watched sports long enough has had their team robbed at least a few times. This was garden variety stuff. Please calm down and shut up!
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