{"id":740,"date":"2007-11-12T18:46:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T02:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/it-was-a-fumble\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:00:39","slug":"it-was-a-fumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/it-was-a-fumble\/","title":{"rendered":"It WAS a Fumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNotice, the Illinois player was in the air, the ball was in the air. This led to 7 points, the difference in the game. I’m not saying that Illinois wouldn’t have scored another touchdown, but this was a blown call that did affect the outcome of the game. The refs certainly didn’t contribute to the 3 interceptions tossed up by OSU or the run defense being shredded (ok, maybe a little with the absolute mugging of the defensive line, but show me a game where this hasn’t happened this year.)
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\nThis was allegedly the same officiating crew that blew the big calls in the Penn St\/Purdue game the week before and was punished<\/a>. It makes you wonder if key figures didn’t stand to gain financially from a poorly officiated game ala the NBA refs. That’s it, I’m not going to talk or think about it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notice, the Illinois player was in the air, the ball was in the air. This led to 7 points, the difference in the game. I’m not saying that Illinois wouldn’t have scored another touchdown, but this was a blown call that did affect the outcome of the game. The refs certainly didn’t contribute to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}