Referee tackles South Carolina QB in LSU game
If you were busy watching No. 1 Texas destroy Missouri on Saturday night, chances are you missed one of the officials tackle quarterback Stephen Garcia in the LSU-South Carolina game. And as FanIQ.com points out, clearly this official had money riding on the Tigers since he flat out gave Garcia the business:
It’s like the dude forgot he was a ref for a second and saw an opportunity to make a play.
The Tigers eventually came from behind and won 24-17…easily covering the 2.5-point spread. Hmm…
WTF? How is this not a huge story right now?
Because USC is not UGA or Florida.
What does USC have to do with anything?
John, you are absolutely right. I have no idea why this isn’t one of the top stories on all the sporting websites. Amazing!
I’m not an apologist for the ref, but he could reasonably claim that he was trying to get out of the way and the QB just ran into him, then he had to brace for the impact– kind of like when you try to pass somebody walking on the sidewalk and you go left, he goes left and you go right, he goes right. But man, it sure does look like he tried to tacke him. Wow.
He shuffled in the player’s direction twice before lowering his shoulder and knocking the guy down. It was clear that the guy was going to go outside and the ref kept moving in that direction. I don’t know how anyone could argue (with a straight face) that he was trying to get out of the player’s way.
Josh,
USC= University of South Carolina
ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT THIS WAS NOT DONE ON PURPOSE IS ON CRACK!! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND THIS REF SHOULD BE BANNED FROM EVER OFFICIATING A GAME,PERIOD!!!!!
This is the most hilarious thing ive every seen in sports… i almost choked when i seen this the first time i couldnt stop laugh i felt like i was on acid could this be real … this guy definitly took the under
The ref shuffled along side the play and hit the quarter back, just like a LB! WTF was going on?
Stupid if you believe this was an accident, that damn ref. knew what was up, money makes us do some stupid shit, and that’s just what he did, now the ? is why the hell wasn’t he ?’d for the hit!!!???