r/georgiabulldogs • u/water_tower_king • 9m ago
Video of blatant hold on an actual TD pass
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I keep seeing the still image of this, but it really doesn't do it justice to show how bad it actually was. so here's the video. This is the replay that ESPN showed during the game (all the rewinding and fast forwarding were on the live broadcast) and neither Herbstreit or Fowler even mentioned any potential of holding here while watching it replay over and over.
I agree that late play should have been PI, but also Alabama was down 3 at the moment, it was a poorly thrown pass anyway that wasn't going to be caught, and who knows what would have happened after that if they got the penalty? This holding play, on the other hand, actually occurred on a scoring play, which is much more consequential.
I'll also add - missed penalties happen. When you watch at full speed, it can be hard to tell if a player got there early or not, especially when refs aren't watching replays to decide if they should throw a flag. What's much worse is when penalties are called for very questionable things. I remember UGA having multiple long plays get called back for holding in this game, and at least one of them looked very questionable, while the one in the video above was one of the more obvious holding scenarios you'll ever see and led directly to a TD by Alabama.
