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Most infamous calls
Topic Started: Sep 18 2014, 11:07 PM (193 Views)
Calicolt
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Challenge question for Colt faithful. What were the worst officiating calls to ever be called against the Colts? Off the top of my head is the 95 AFC Championship when Stewart stepped out at the top of the End Zone or the 65' GB game where the kick to tie the game at 10-10 was wayyyyyyyy right and still called good and yea we lost in OT. How your guys opinion?
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cedjss
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Have to agreed because both in playoffs and both were scores
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TheDodo
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I am too young to have a memory of any games prior to Manning, even though I know I had been to at least one game prior to Manning, so I can't speak to anything prior to 1998. I honestly can't think of any single call prior to Sunday that had such a dramatic affect on the outcome of the game. Usually if I feel like the refs had a significant affect on the game it is from consistently poor calls over the course of the game.
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JediColt
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Yeah the 1965 game was the biggest, cost the Colts a championship that year and the league completely revised the rules, goalposts and placement of officials after that game because of it.

There have been some really, really bad calls against the Colts over the years, but because it either didn't affect the outcome of the game or losing the game actually helped us fans have forgotten. Let me see if I can job your memory of some of these.

1. 1995 San Francisco 49ers game - Right before the half the 49ers are driving, and we stop them on 3rd down short of the goalline, they're out of timeouts. The clock is still running and they hustle to get the FG unit on before time expires. Time runs out before they kick and the Colts celebrate to go in at halftime. Suddenly Ron Winter comes out and says the officials called a timeout before the clock expired. Apparently they switched balls for the 4th down play, and the ball they tossed out was lying right on the sideline, right next to the linesman. So they blew it dead since there were 2 balls on the field. This had no bearing on the play as the ball was far away from everyone and wouldn't have affected the play. This ended up being the refs just giving the 49ers a 4th timeout and they designed a play, came out and went for the TD. We stopped them but this is probably the maddest I've ever seen the Colts crowd over a call. We also won the game so that is probably why this one isn't remembered more.

2. 1996 against the Bills, this is the game when we were stomping the Bills and they came back on us. There were several bad calls against us in this one, but none worse than the final play of the game. The Bills were up by 8, we scored and went for 2. Harbaugh threw to Marvin Harrison, the defender behind him just grabbed him and held down both arms. The ball just hit Marvin right in the middle of the chest. No call, Colts lost. We went 3-13 that year and winning that game would have cost us Manning, so no one really cared or brings it up, but had this been a playoff game you'd see this replay over and over again.

3. 1998 49ers game - If ever there were a fixed game in the NFL this was it. Rookie Manning and team outplayed the 49ersall day but the one sided refs kept them in it. Twice we intercepted Young in the endzone, once running it all the way back for a TD, and twice they called us for pass interference when replays clearly showed no interference. If you don't remember this one or didn't see it, google it, the articles, even from unbiased sources, will admit this one was rigged. Curious note that this game was reffed by Walt Coleman, who was so quick to flag us for pass interference, but couldn't see any against the Patriots in 2003.

4. 1999 Dolphins - End of the game the Dolphins are driving, we sack Marino cause a fumble we recover. Replay was new, but the ref goes under the hood. He comes back and calls it an incomplete pass. Replays show at no point is the ball moving forward, in fact, when we hit Marino's arm the ball goes BACKWARDS and doinks off Marino's helmet. Dolphins go on to score and win the game.

5. 2003 Panthers - Trailing in the 4th quarter, Chad Bratzke intercepts the Panthers QB. The Panthers o line surrounds Bratzke, stands him up and strips the ball, the Colts recover the fumble. On replay the refs rule simultaneous possession of the ball between Bratzke and the Panthers o lineman, then rule it an incomplete pass since there is a fumble. Even though Bratzke had the ball fully in his possession, and the ball stays off the ground for 4-5 seconds, they somehow reverse it to an incomplete pass. Colts lose in OT after a bogus PI call puts the Panthers in FG range.

6. Of course the 2003 AFC Champ game, in which no penatlies were called during actual game play, only dead ball fouls. Patriots mugged the Colts receivers all game long without a single flag. Marvin Harrison routinely returned to the Colts huddle with his jersey pulled down his shoulder pads because he was being held so bad. On the Colts final 2 plays of the game, Marcus Pollard is held with no call. This outrageous one sided officiating led to the league agreeing penalties should have been called and clarifying with officials to enforce these rules.




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errsay
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Chandler's phantom FG for me. Funny, but I was thinking about that just the other day. That was the game where Tom Matte had to Q.B. the team with the plays on his wrist band. Loved Tom Matte...
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MrCCCs
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Numbers 3 and 4 were what came to my mind, Jedi, but now that you mention it I remember the call against the Panthers.

The thing I remember about the 49'rs game is Jim Mora running down the sideline yelling at the officials going into halftime. I'd never seen him that angry before but I was proud of him that game. They deserved all they heard from that. You can tell how effective it was as Walt Coleman has continued to prosper as a league official.

But the Cordell Steward non-call was game changing and in the playoffs, so it was easily the worst mistake by the refs for the Colts (second only to the 1965 game).
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JediColt
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Most of the games that I referenced above were reffed by Walt Coleman, who reffed our game yesterday, and in true Walt Coleman fashion, he did everything he could to screw us. Phantom penalties against Vontae Davis that negated a sack and a safety. Ticky tack calls on us all day long, even tried to invent an intentional grounding call against Luck that didn't even look close to being in the pocket. He does this every time he refs our games, and it never seems to matter, he continues to ref our games.
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MrCCCs
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I don't know what the one sideline judge was looking at when Moncrief made his catch, but that was clearly in bounds. The call on Davis really negated a great play by Werner, but we couldn't see anything on replay to tell if it was a good call or not.
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