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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1046867, member: 289"] 1) I'm in the camp that the interference wasn't necessarily a bad call, (I remember waiting to see if they would call it) so much as it was a late call by the wrong guy. The ref who called it was 30 yards down the field. You had to wonder why the ref closest to the play didn't call it. I still remember Steve Hyder going beserk in the post game show, alleging, quite seriously that Phil Fullmer had bribed the refs. I thought for sure he was going to get sued for slander or liable or whatever. 2) That game didn't close the door on our ambitions that year. We crushed defending AP national champion Michigan in the Big House the next week, (McNabb over Brady!), then pounded Rutgers 70-14. If we could have run the table, we still had a shot at the BCS title game, If you are going to lose, a controversial one pointer in the opener to a team that went undefeated is the way to do it. Anybody for a title game rematch? Then there was the issue of getting a Heisman for Donovan to make up for the one Donnie McPherson didn't get. 3) The real crusher was the NC State game. Not only were we thinking Heisman and National Championship but also revenge for the above referenced game we gave away in 1997. It started out looking just like the Michigan game with McNabb leading the team inexorably down the field on a long drive to score. Then the Wolfpack had a third and twenty something. All we had to is stop them and McNabb would have the ball again. George DeLeone's defense let Torry Holt run free. He got 29 yards and somehow that turned everything around for both teams. We couldn't seem to get out of our own way- or in theirs- the rest of the way and lost 17-38. It was the first of a series of national TV embarrassments that did much to bring the program down. Everything was gone: the title, the Heisman. We couldn't even get Donovan to New York. The McNabb Era was going to end without ever making a serious run at the national title. I was so bummed out the next day that for the only time in my life as an SU fan I wondered if it was worth the pain and suffering of a moment like that. I got over it but I'll never forget it. [/QUOTE]

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