I Knew It

Happy 4th to you Sir Duck. My bong days are long gone was doing bongs when you were in kindergarten.

 

Thanks for backing up what we both saw. Still one hell of a game Cholly had the Tigers snarling that night.

 

Yes in one of the better Sports Illustrated articles.

 

Too bad the old sage here doesn't remember the face mask rule at the time. It didn't distinguish between incidental and purposeful and only required the actual grabbing of the mask. That happened.

As with a lot of close games, while it's easy to point to one play or one call, there are other chances and opportunities that result in the final score. LSU was at home with a 12-3 lead heading in to the 4th Q. Charlie White ran for a TD and even after the face mask, McDonald hit Williams for an 8-yard TD. 14 unanswered points at home in the the 4th Q. Just how much HAS Ensminger evolved since then?

 

Ronnie Lott said it was the most intense game he ever played in and that includes the NFL.

 

Well if you actually read my post I didn't harp on the facemask call although USC QB Paul McDonald said Benji Thibodeaux just brushed his facemask. The offsides was visible to everyone and was not called your crooked Pac 10 officials. Were you there? I was there and you weren't so you have no credibility here. As far as Ensminger you like the flock of other buzzards here couldn't recognize what E accomplished last year with the Hubble telescope. Lastly had Cholly Mac not hated the passing game so much and left the guy you and others here are shamelessly and unjustly persecuting that being Steve Slinger Ensminger we would have won the game. E was playing well but on cue Cholly went to his chicken charlie ways. I was there I saw it you weren't so the "old sage" has real world knowdledge of that game and you don't. Go watch the replay of the game if you dare and you will see a E's passing game was on the money.

Go flock with the rest of the buzzards and don't hide behind your gender if you want to attack me.

 

I was closer to the action than you. I watched the game on TV.

 

Just for you uscvball. Here is what actually happened with the facemask call not from the old sage but from Paul McDonald himself

From the article

But time was still running out on the Trojans, and they would need their passing game to come through. With the clock winding down on third and nine, McDonald would be brought down in the backfield, unable to find a receiver. Benjy Thibodeaux brushed McDonald’s face mask, and the flag fluttered down. McLendon thought it would be of the five-yard incidental variety, but the refs went for the full fifteen personal flag. As McDonald himself would remark, “His hand did brush my face mask, but it was a very, very fortunate call. I was kind of surprised we got the call to tell you the truth.”