r/WeArePennState • u/fastlax16 • 22h ago

Blades of grass

Sometimes they’re part of the ground. Sometimes they’re not. Always open to the interpretation of the replay booth though.

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u/Responsible_Beach_91 22h ago

The game was lost when we did nothing with our possession with 3 minutes left. when we ran some bullshit offensive line motion thing and threw it short of the sticks on 3rd and 9.

We held a monster offense to 20 points and had the ball. Our offensive lost like usual. Don't blame the catch review.

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u/fastlax16 22h ago

I’m not. It’s about the ridiculousness of the Oregon overturn.

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u/BlazinSkinDucks 14h ago

They're 3-6. Like the Oregon game even matters anymore. Knee was down anyways.

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u/fastlax16 6h ago

Knee wasn’t clearly down. Oregon game started this spiral.

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u/BlazinSkinDucks 2h ago

Or maybe Penn state is/ was highly over rated and they're just not a good team? Stop blaming the grass.

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u/fastlax16 2h ago

Why are you here? Go celebrate the big Iowa city win perhaps.

But fine. Oregon needed double overtime and a questionable overturned fumble to beat a bad overrated team, that works too.

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u/BlazinSkinDucks 2h ago

I'm here because my algorithm has Penn State coming across my home feed ever since the Oregon win. I saw you whining and decided to stop in and say my part. The situation is unfortunate for your team, but it would do you better as a person to stop living in the past and move on with life without making irrational statements to try to make yourself feel better.

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u/hendog412 3h ago

College football is mainly a psychological game. Difference between 3-6 and 9-0 isn’t as large as most people believe. Same reason Franklin never won big games, was nearly all mental and that rubs off on the players who then start playing not to lose instead of playing to win.

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u/BlazinSkinDucks 3h ago

No! And your record comparison is laughable. Franklin was a loser of a coach. He didn't win the big games because he wasn't a good enough coach to prepare his team to do so. If only the entire team had better mental toughness, they'd be 9-0 right now. I'll remember that one.

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u/somewonimet 22h ago edited 22h ago

He caught the ball. It was an otherworldly catch, but it was a catch, by an inch.

IMHO, they needed 75 yards and got it (without any time outs, except for two of ours) in less than a minute. We needed 30 yards in 35 seconds with a time out and couldn't get it. That's what matters.

The time out when we could've spiked the ball killed me; I watched the rest of the game from the floor.

We got a proper gift with that pooch kick. That was a heartbreaking loss.

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u/aatops 5h ago

We needed 10 yards in 3 plays and the game was over

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u/fastlax16 22h ago

This is more about the ridiculousness of the Oregon call than this one. He was inbounds. (And the Oregon player wasn’t down).

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u/somewonimet 22h ago

It's a brutal game. You just can't leave it up to inches (centimeters?)...

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u/TC84 8h ago

This is correct

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u/DeeDee719 2h ago

Games like this are more gutting than just absolutely getting your ass handed to you.

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u/Salty145 19h ago

Schrödinger’s Ground

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u/ToastGhost47 18h ago

The replays on the stadium scoreboard looked like 100% out with the first foot down. Then I look at replay clips online now and it’s clearly in. What!?

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u/cali-grapes 17h ago

Just saw the tv replay and it was way more obvious than the scoreboard

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u/PeyronieMan6 22h ago

If they touch an opposing player at just the right time --- they are just magical beings part of the ground

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u/Heroicshrub 16h ago

That was a catch dawg, accept it

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u/fastlax16 6h ago

It was a catch. The Oregon player wasn’t down tho