There's one area that's real murky. IF his original contact point was where I saw it, at the top of the numbers and below the collar bone, how is that a high hit to the neck or head? It looks like it's below both. (I'm still casually looking for other angles or videos of this hit...hopefully better footage will be available some time today.)
[/quote] Do you remember the call in the NFL a few years ago when the official cited "Giving him the business" as the penalty? I wonder if this ref didn't know what to say (exact wording) and just used the term "flagrant" because it's a new rule. It seems like the rules have flagrant added on to emphasize the point. (My mind is telling me rule 2-10-1 but I can't tell you why or what that rule says...)
@TerryP I agree that the video quality is poor. This is the best I could do just trying to get a manual screen shot. Perhaps someone with better knowledge and/or AV equipment can get a clearer picture. You can see here that yes, the arms are out and the head is up but rolling at full speed there is not a lot of time to alter the trajectory of his head. It looks like a straight line to the red helmet to me.
And you can see here, only a frame or two later the white helmet is clearly in contact with the red helmet. From what I've seen I'd have to say that it is/was a good call. Players will just HAVE to be more disciplined, there isn't any way around it. Add in the ineptitude of SEC officials and (you seem like a pretty good dude so I know will be able to handle this) the blatant favoring of anything bama and it could flat out be disastrous for other teams in the SEC.
Lol, good one, however Reid had the damn ball. I'm not sure how because I looked at it in slow mo at least 100 times and still haven't figured out how he did it, when he did it but at the end of the play ER1 had the ball and that my friend is in fact an interception. What is even more shocking is that we got that call in gumpland.
I was scared to death that the Bama receiver had the ball when they hit the ground, after which Reid ripped it out of his hands. That's kinda the way I saw it, but we were due some justice on some bad calls!!
I saw contact on the side of the helmet, the crack of which is clearly audible at 0:04, and the head of the returner snapped back severely. In Shane's still shot you can see that he is upright and not aiming at the returners chest. And the following frame is fairly conclusive that his head was targeted. See the video at 1:14. Helmet hit snapping the returners head sideways.
