The PI call
 

that call reminded me of a flag football game I was in. League game during med school.

I played safety, and though I still have wheels, I REALLY had wheels then. I think I had about a pick a game.

But anyway, guy is going on a fly, I am right behind him on D. I look back to see the ball, and I am like, I got you MFer, this is my ball. So I accelerate to get to the ball, while looking back at it, and completely run over the lard receiver who never would have had a chance at it. PI on me. I was pissed.

The difference is you were looking at the ball and the OSU defender wasn't.

that and it's not PI if the ball is uncatchable.

in my case, the ball was catchable for me, but not for him.

I thought he had a chance to catch it. That part of the PI call is based on judgement and I don't disagree with the ref's judgement on that play. It would have been a heck of a catch, but I don't think it was impossible.

I look at it this way. If BYU were Utah in this game, every Cougar would have been calling for a flag too. So it must have been a good call.

Of course, we're always a lot less clumsy in our memories than we are in real life.

I still seethe about an intramural flag football non-call where I was running to try to catch a guy running up the sidelines when the offensive player just slammed me and knocked me down. No call. I hope both the player and the ref burn in hell for that.

The PI call reminded me of the '02 Fiesta Bowl, it took the ref a long time to throw the flag. I guess he must have been "reviewing it in his mind". I thought it was PI, I was surprised it took him that long to call it.

I think it took so long because he was 30 yards from the play and he couldnt really see.

I didn't think the ball was catchable. On the goalpost camera angle it looked like the ball was thrown about 4 feet behind him.

But they really didn't have much choice as to whether they could throw the flag or not. I agree that if it had been a BYU receiver making a play on the ball with the game on the line I would have wanted a call as well.