Husker fans have never seen a penalty against us they liked. I only saw the LG on replay once and it looked legit. Interesting you dont mention they didnt call the one at the end of the game. If Darlington doesnt spin the ball it isnt called. They allow celebrating but there are limits. I remember when a player got 15 for pointing in the stands after a TD. It was all called and there will be controversial ones throughout the year. Sooner or later they have to take responsibility for them.
This sounds like the parent who came into my office as a principal when their kid got in trouble. Everyone else was the problem but them.
Give me a break with the usual cop outs. This is why nothing is ever done about God awful officiating, because too many people just chalk up anyone complaining about it to people trying to shift blame. We won 43-10, I'm not trying to make any blame on the officiating because of the outcome of the game, I'm simply complaining about it, like I always do, because it was horrible. You can think what you want about the Luke Gifford call, you're wrong, it was a crap call plain and simple, basically on the level of the Nate Gerry call in the bowl game.
I didn't mention the overturned targeting call later in the game, because I was running down the 7 penalties for 80 yards that were called and disputing some (or most) of them. Because that penalty was overturned, it didn't count toward that total, and I didn't list it. I was completely shocked when they overturned it, not because it shouldn't have been overturned, but because I have so rarely seen targeting calls overturned, even when they clearly should have been (can only think of one other instance from a couple years ago).
The celebration stuff, I agree that the stuff just shouldn't be done, but in the end we're talking about 18-22 years olds, often who just made a big play, what do you expect? And you can't really define what will and won't get called, because it's so completely arbitrary. Take, for instance, what Suh did after his huge INT return to seal the win against Colorado in 2008. As soon as he crossed the goal line, he threw the ball as hard as he could against the wall behind the end zone. Much more emphatic and celebratory than anything either penalized player did last night, and there was no penalty called. In the end, I would probably not care that much about those two penalties, except based on what I saw the rest of the game, the refs were out to get us, and looking for crap to call. I think the call on Aaron Williams was a lot more BS than the one on Zack Darlington. I saw other players, on both sides of the ball, celebrate just as much if not more than he did, after a defensive play, and nothing was called. From my perspective, the douchebag that threw the flag was just piling on.
I'm also interested how you mention nothing at all about that kick catch interference call, because it was a perfect example of the officiating the entire game, pure crap. What really got me, was a later punt by Fresno State, and while the ball was hanging way up and the Fresno State players were gathering around Westerkamp, at least one of them very clearly bumped into him, the very DEFINITION of interference, and no flag was thrown. Westy was clearly pretty unhappy about it too, and let the zebra striped moron that was standing a few feet away know about it.
