Theft

If you had USC like I did, you were robbed from tonight. The timing and magnitude of penalties was disgusting. There were at least 5, 15-yard penalties that were phantom calls, the un-catchable pass interference followed by the pass interference when the Wash receiver was riding the USC corner's back, the unnecessary roughness calls on the in bounds hit on Locker, the in bounds hit on the Wash interception return and especially the roughness called on the screen pass that was dropped where the receiver kept batting the ball around on the ground, that is always a potential lateral, especially when the receiver continues to handle the ball. And those are the specifics remember, I am certain there were others. On a day where the favorites were all struggling, it seemed this official crew wanted to be a part of history. It didn't factor into the result, but even the play where an interception was ruled on the field in the end zone for Wash when at first glance on TV the ball was obviously dropped, even the Wash players reaction gave away the fact that he dropped the ball. I don't like to complain about the officials, but the crowd never gets in the game without the gift calls and USC wins by 4 TDs as expected instead of sneaking past by a FG. I got some back with Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik, but I should be sizing my book up for a knockout punch right now instead of licking my wounds. Going to take a look at NFL games some more and probably up-size a little to try to get some of the good work done earlier back.