I had to work Saturday and was relagated to listening to the game instead of watching it. I chose to listen on KSL via the internet which proved to be a frustrating decision. Don't get me wrong, a BYU game, especially a win, is always the highlight of my week. However, for the amount of whining KSL did about the officiating you would have thought the officials were in UW Jerseys.
Of course when I did get to a TV to see a rare BYU highlight (another issue I have with ESPN, why no BYU highlights??), ESPN decides to basically sum up the game in only two plays - the Locker celebration penalty and the FG Block. As you all know, ESPN chose to whine about the celebration call incessantly. So having not seen the game, it seems from ESPN's perspective that the officials were clearly in BYU's corner.
My guess is that the game must have been somewhere in between KSL and ESPN, where the officials probably did a fair job, but had a number of botched calls. The majority of the bad calls going in UW's favor, but nothing aggregious and not enough to really say it was overly biased. Either KSL and ESPN weren't watching the same game or they were competing in their own sort of biased game of whining. Can anyone who saw the game fill me in?
