Breaking Down Biggest Ref "Screw Jobs" in Detroit Sports History
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Rico opens the phone lines to the people to ask whether they believe in sports conspiracies and what they think are the biggest in Detroit history.
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| 0:00.0 | That's how Lions fans felt Saturday after the game in Dallas. |
| 0:08.8 | Just when you thought you had won, just when you thought maybe the two seed or even the one seed would be in your grasp, it was taken away from you. |
| 0:18.8 | So I've asked a couple of questions. |
| 0:20.6 | One, do you believe in conspiracy theories in sports conspiracy |
| 0:25.4 | theories that a league is rigged against you? The other question. Because I |
| 0:31.8 | think it is time to turn the page. |
| 0:35.0 | Was this the worst call you've seen against your team? |
| 0:40.0 | The failed, well it wasn't even a failed two-point conversion the referee screwed up and they got the wrong guy they said it was skipper but instead it wasn't it was decker the play worked but in the end you ended up with nothing but a nail |
| 0:57.8 | was that the worst play that you've ever seen the referees screw you out of as a sports fan or is it something else? |
| 1:06.0 | As I said, for me it was the Phantom File against Lambeir and it was also when they picked up, |
| 1:11.8 | ironically enough in Dallas when they picked up, ironically enough, in Dallas, when they picked up the flag against |
| 1:15.8 | pedagru, which makes you wonder David, if they play a playoff game in Dallas, how are you going to top these two plays? |
| 1:24.0 | Because if you believe in conspiracy theories, you now believe |
| 1:28.0 | the league will come up with a play that will top these two, because I didn't think that that pedigree |
| 1:34.8 | pick up the flag play would ever get topped and it did this one mine for the |
| 1:42.2 | lions and this might not be the most This one. Mind for the Lions. |
| 1:43.0 | And this might not be the most egregious, but in my mind it was because I think it was the first one that really shaped my thought process on how I'm viewing this team when I was a kid. |
| 1:52.0 | Was the Calvin Johnson rule when in that |
| 1:54.4 | bears game that catch that wasn't a catch that should have been a catch that's still |
| 1:58.0 | a catch to me and I don't care what anybody says the Calvin rule is |
| 2:00.8 | BS and that was the first one that kind of just in my brain |
| 2:04.1 | that's like the origin story of my lion's fandom is oh I guess we just don't get any |
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