Worst 'ZEBRA' job of all time...Vote Inside

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

the stanley cup finals have brought several intellectual debates on the impact that the officials can have on the outcome of a game or a SERIES....some will say that this series (flames/Bolts) stands among one of the greatest 'ream jobs' in history (personally, I dont agree...officiating was horrible & it did benefit Tampa, however, it was not IMHO shockingly agregious.....)

My vote would have to be:

The biggest ass ream in history I have ever witnessed has to be when the Officials allowed Brett Hull's goal in the Stanley Cup Finals that year when EACH & EVERY other time that year that a foot had been in the crease the goal was allowed.

Didn't the zebras completely f uck up in the GIANTS game when San Fran came back to beat them at the end of the game....

Name some other famous 'ZEBRA JOBS' no matter what the sport...

wil, can you get us a shot of the foot in the crease for that goal...lol....

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

Pretty sure this is the goal.

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

BTW - without a doubt - I mean there is nothing even close was the Soviets getting extra time in 1972 Olympic hoops
The U.S. men's basketball team suffered its first loss in Olympic history when officials put time back on the clock twice in the final seconds, allowing the Soviet Union to score a basket at the buzzer and win the gold medal with a 50-49 victory in the final of the 1972 Games.

wil.

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

you are amazing wil...

how do you find this stuff so quickly?

Anyway that given year in Hockey they had changed the rules so that NO MATTER WHAT, if your foot was in the crease it was NO GOAL....Even if the Foot was in the crease at the other end & not affecting the PLAY....

Throughout the year Fans & Media were moaning as the League was DISALLOWING many goals which should have been allowed however due to a PINKY TOE in the CREASE, even if it was at the other end of the play they would disallow it...They called it religiously that year...about the only thing I have ever seen the NHL do consistently...UNTIL....Brett Hull's....

His foot is without a doubt, in the crease...In fact there are two feet in the crease in the pictue above...

Does anybody know? did the NHL ever APOLOGIZE to buffallo for that...Buffallo went into Big Financial Problems after that....you never know, that may not have happened had they won the CUP

Any quotes on what the League's official stance was on this Play...

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Thats the year I was born

, How old were u willy?

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

In 72 I was 24. Another beauty was when the Yankees beat the Orioles 5-4 in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS when 12-year-old fan Jeffrey Maier reaches over the fence and catches Derek Jeter's flyball to right before Baltimore right fielder Tony Tarasco can make a play. Umpire Rich Garcia, who has run out to the right-field wall, fails to call fan interference on the play and rules the ball a game-tying homer. The Yanks go on to win the game on Bernie Williams' homer in the 11th.

wil.

BTW - thats Dominik Hasek sprawled out in front of Hull.

Journeyman · Jun 9, 2004

And if it hadn`t been for that call Baltimore would have likely been going to the World Series (they would have won the 1st two gms @NY, instead the series was tied 1-1)

The one that comes to mind for me was Game 6 ,1985 W.S., the Don Denkinger call at 1st base...you can argue that his blown call single handidly cost St.Louis and gave Kansas City its only W.S. title...

Stocks · Jun 9, 2004

Sports is all about politics man. The Dallas goal should'nt have counted with the rules they had that year but I dont think the NHL really cared who won. This year the NHL wanted actually Gary Betmen wanted Tampa to win with out a doubt in my mind to make hockey more popular down south and the officiating proved it.

Fezzik · Jun 9, 2004

That Denkinger call in the Royals-Cards World Series HAS to make the top 5.

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

Fezzik - True it was arguably the most controversial call in World Series history. TV replays show that St. Louis pitcher Todd Worrell had clearly beaten Jorge Orta to the bag, but Don Denkinger's call sets the stage for a two-run Royals rally in a critical 2-1 victory. Kansas City goes on to win the Series in seven games.

wil.

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

I remember at the end of that ridiculous GIANTS game where San Fran came back from a zillion points to win the game...on that last contraversial play....

I was listening to an ANALYST commenting on that & he stated that there was no less than 8 errors in officiating made on that Play...

Of course it was only fitting that San Fran Came back anyway & all the talk was about the comeback & not the missed calls in that Play....

Anyone remember what the mistakes were? (too much ganga has shot my memory...lol)

Journeyman · Jun 9, 2004

Are you talking about the botched FG game? That was a mess lol

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

yeah...its coming back to me from a haze...botched field goal...given second chance...pass made but ruled 'ineligable'...

wait a second...its getting all fuzzy again...

Journeyman · Jun 9, 2004

FSU@Fla..it doesn`t get any worse for a whole group of ACC officials

miaplus3 · Jun 9, 2004

interference in the end-zone on the botched field goal play

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

That was in the 2002 NFC playoffs when the 49ers trailed the Giants 38-14 with 4 minutes left in the third quarter, but they scored 25 straight points on two TD passes and a scoring run by Jeff Garcia, as well as two 2-point conversion catches by Terrell Owens. After Garcia drove the Niners 68 yards in just over 2 minutes for a Tai Streets' score, Kerry Collins got New York to the San Francisco 28 with 6 seconds left. But long snapper Trey Junkin , signed earlier in the week, made a low snap that holder Matt Allen couldn't handle. Allen threw a desperate pass that fell incomplete, and after New York was penalized for illegal men downfield, the Niners won.

wil.

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

that is the play exactly...I cannot remember all the facts but the analyst I was listening too was talking about that play & how no less than 8 OFFICIAL mistakes took place on that Play...

There was no Pass Interference...that was one of them....But there were a bunch of Others aswell...

wilheim · Jun 9, 2004

Well it was a botched field goal and a couple of Giant linemen went downfield, one of them was tackled but it was not interference because he was an ineligible receiver downfield. The refs made the right call in this case. The game itself was full of controversy including a fight.

wil.

PanchoSanza · Jun 9, 2004

1977 AFC title game, missed fumble call in the raiders/broncos game

1979 AFC title game, refs disallow TD by Mike Renfro claiming his feet did not come down in the end zone.

1988 Olympics, Roy Jones robbed of the gold medal

randyrohm · Jun 9, 2004

Boxing I think Holy/Lewis? Watched the fight snotslingin' drunk and went on a tirade about Don King comung in my house and robbing me of $1100.

SportSavant · Jun 9, 2004

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difficult for me to argue as the details are very hazy for me...however I was in the car listening to talk Radio & the analyst went through this play step by step by step...& he sure had me beleiving it was full of errors...I thought I remembered that the receiver was in fact eligble (but I could very well be wrong)...Wasnt there two field goal attempts aswell? It was more than just the interference & the ineligible receiver... This analyst had it all broken down & he had come up with like a ton of errors on the very same play....