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The NO CATCH.
Period.
The Jabar Gaffney incompletion at Neyland was the most disgusting moment in sports ever. I was there with my Dad, may he rest in peace, and that was 1 of the 2 times in my 42 years of life that I saw my Dad cry. We were flabbergasted. Gobsmacked. Bamboozled. Defrauded. Disenfranchised and flat out robbed. We were jobbed in our own house...in the endzone right below my Dad and I.
Not only did he not catch the ball.....he didnt even slow it down. He didnt even intentionally redirect the ball. He didnt at any point...in any way...control the momentum, directional heading, or any other factor of the ball. Jabar Gaffney had no more control over what happened to that football ...than a brick wall has over a speeding bullet that slams into it. The ball hit him in his stomach...passed BETWEEN his open hands...and fell lifelessly to the ground. No sane person with working eyes could ever look at what occurred in the endzone of Neyland stadium that night and conclude that a man actually caught a football with his hands.
Yet the official threw both arms into the air and signalled a Floriduh touchdown. He must have been paid a fortune.
Our season was ruined. As was the case in those days when we always played them in the 3rd or 4th game of the year. Done. Greatest robbery to ever happen in Neyland
I am still so pissed right now my blood just boils. I hate those dammm gators so much to this day.