booomer
9/21/2006, 09:00 PM
Sorry if this has been posted, but a quick search found nothing.
Here is an excerpt from his article at OU Insider:
With a planned long layover on my way to Toronto, I watched the game alone in the Grand Hyatt in Terminal D at Dallas–Ft. Worth Airport, which is akin to drinking alone. It’s not advised. It was like being involved in a tumultuous relationship that included hope, frustration, confusion, exaltation, and finally ending in heartbreak.
My stage manager Sunday night in Toronto at a WWE pay-per-view even and Monday night in Montreal for WWE Monday Night RAW, was ironically enough the tape operator inside the ABC production truck in Eugene on Sunday.
According to him, ABC provided Mr. Riese several different angles of the blotched onside kick call that were either ignored or too overwhelming for the retired Pac-10 official, who has probably worked dozens of scrimmages and perhaps even games in his “backyard” at Eugene for the Ducks’ staff.
He does some work for the WWE as many of our camera men do ABC football. This individual, who I see on a weekly basis, said that the replay official received at least four replays of the onside kick and that the technicians in the truck were as shocked as the OU fans when the play was not overturned, as it was obvious to all involved EXCEPT the replay official that Oregon illegally touched the free kick prior to it traveling 10 yards.
I asked if there were any technical errors or problems with the feeding of video to the replay booth during the day and he said, 'Definitely not.' If there was, he would have heard and it would have been addressed immediately. This equipment is thoroughly checked prior to every game and at halftime, and a technician is standing by just in case of any technical failure.
After the game, the onsides kick was THE topic of conversation with the ABC people who could not believe that the obvious infraction of the onside kick rule was ignored by the replay official. The ABC people were concerned that they either missed the camera angle, which obviously they did not as we all saw, OR that there was a problem with the direct line feed from the production truck straight into the booth. Neither of these issues existed.
ABC did their job, the video techs did their job but the replay official for some unknown reason did not do his. After 28 years on the field as a Pac-10 official in major college football games, the onsides kick rule is one of the simplest rules to interpret. This is not a judgment call. It is simply all about the ball traveling a minimum of 10 yards before it can be legally touched by the kicking team.
Here is an excerpt from his article at OU Insider:
With a planned long layover on my way to Toronto, I watched the game alone in the Grand Hyatt in Terminal D at Dallas–Ft. Worth Airport, which is akin to drinking alone. It’s not advised. It was like being involved in a tumultuous relationship that included hope, frustration, confusion, exaltation, and finally ending in heartbreak.
My stage manager Sunday night in Toronto at a WWE pay-per-view even and Monday night in Montreal for WWE Monday Night RAW, was ironically enough the tape operator inside the ABC production truck in Eugene on Sunday.
According to him, ABC provided Mr. Riese several different angles of the blotched onside kick call that were either ignored or too overwhelming for the retired Pac-10 official, who has probably worked dozens of scrimmages and perhaps even games in his “backyard” at Eugene for the Ducks’ staff.
He does some work for the WWE as many of our camera men do ABC football. This individual, who I see on a weekly basis, said that the replay official received at least four replays of the onside kick and that the technicians in the truck were as shocked as the OU fans when the play was not overturned, as it was obvious to all involved EXCEPT the replay official that Oregon illegally touched the free kick prior to it traveling 10 yards.
I asked if there were any technical errors or problems with the feeding of video to the replay booth during the day and he said, 'Definitely not.' If there was, he would have heard and it would have been addressed immediately. This equipment is thoroughly checked prior to every game and at halftime, and a technician is standing by just in case of any technical failure.
After the game, the onsides kick was THE topic of conversation with the ABC people who could not believe that the obvious infraction of the onside kick rule was ignored by the replay official. The ABC people were concerned that they either missed the camera angle, which obviously they did not as we all saw, OR that there was a problem with the direct line feed from the production truck straight into the booth. Neither of these issues existed.
ABC did their job, the video techs did their job but the replay official for some unknown reason did not do his. After 28 years on the field as a Pac-10 official in major college football games, the onsides kick rule is one of the simplest rules to interpret. This is not a judgment call. It is simply all about the ball traveling a minimum of 10 yards before it can be legally touched by the kicking team.