Exactly. The linemen raised a hair early. Unfortunately the zebras didn't have instant replay available and the coaches didn't have challenges. As far as the face mask, I watched the video ten times. I couldn't tell one way or another if the facemask was grasped.
Keep on with your paranoia Trigger, it's amusing. According to the rules at the time, it was a facemask. Offsides or not, it doesn't change the fact that LSU held a 12-3 advantage at home going into the 4th Q. Take care of business. If you have to let it come down to one call, then you haven't closed the door.
You talk about closing the door but when 2 very good teams get together it's usually a close game and neither team is able to pull away from the other. It's not like we were playing the Eastern Idaho School of Bartending. In all fairness we don't k ow for sure who would have won if the calls had been made correctly. Maybe LSU would have fumbled the punt in the end zone. Maybe we would have gone 3 and out and Marcus Allen would have run the punt back. Maybe we would have gotten a long run and put the game away. It was a great game that should have been decided by the players on the field and not by incompetent officiating.
I hadn't thought about it until kiki brought it up. But this is football. Not some namby pamby sport where the losers have a good cry and the coach takes everybody out for pizza and ice cream.
