On Saturday October 24, 2011 the Wisconsin Badgers suffered a heart breaking loss to Michigan St. The badgers had scored two touchdowns in the last several minutes to tie the game. Michigan St. had enough time left to heave up a Hail Mary and they did. The ball looked to be well thrown when it left the hand of Kirk cousins and it was, it reached the end zone and was tipped by the Badgers defender, deflected off a Michigan St. receiver and then caught by another Michigan St. receiver and he was at about the two yard line when he caught the ball and trucked forward to attempt to score and he did “score”. The Controversy in this is that the ruling on the field was that he did not get in and was stopped about six inches before the end zone. Then the referees decided to let the booth review the call and after about five minutes they decided that ball broke the end zone plain and was ruled a touchdown.
I personally think the call was atrocious that first off they would overturn the call on the field when the main camera clearly didn’t have the right angle to make such an important call. Second of all this is two ranked teams that could go to a B.C.S. bowl and to make that important of a call that quickly is ridiculous! If I constantly looked at that play for 1 hour I still don’t think I would know if it was a touchdown or not and I’m not suggesting that they should spend an hour looking at it while the fans I am just saying that since the call on the field was no touchdown then they should stick with that because there was clearly no indisputable evidence!
I still think that that was a bad call but since then things have cooled off and the Badgers are back on track. The Badgers still have big bowl hopes but if they don’t win out now I just don’t see that happen. The badgers have a good team but if they don’t improve their defense then it will put too much pressure on the offense. So the saying is true defense wins championships!
