Craziest Assembly of CTers in Dealey Plaza of all Time

[Zeon Mason]

Already anticipating a new thread: Stadium Clock Conspiracy where Royell will find evidence in  the replays of some mystery  referee carrying some object in his hand pointing it at the scoreboard 

[Zeon Mason]

Only if Josiah Thompson was there  could it have been the craziest gathering of CTs.

Thompson looks as the Z312-Z313 forward head movement of JFK and rather than just admit he made a mistake presuming a frontal head shot, doubles down with an even more preposterous sequence of FIVE shots fired of which JFK is struck TWO times in the head, one from TSBD and then 1 from a GK shooter wearing a Fedora hat. Thompson explains the forward head movement of JFK is caused by Zapruder moving his camera.

Talk about crazy Bat%^* .




 

[John Corbett]

    YOU have been conned. The stadium clock is Not Official. This is why the conference is challenging the outcome of the game.

I officiated high school and college football for over 25 years. I think I know what the official clock is and it's the clock on the primary scoreboard. You obviously misunderstood what the explanation was by the Big 10. The issue is with how the replay cameras are synced to the stadium clock. All the video cameras are supposed to be synced to the stadium clock before the game. There is a technical problem that causes the main TV camera that superimposes the first down line on the screen to fall about quarter second behind the other cameras. That's why the main camera showed the clock hit 0:00 before the pass was touched out of bounds while the end zone camera showed there was still 0:01 second on the stadium clock when the ball was touched. While the end zone camera was probably the more accurate one, the replay protocol dictates that the main broadcast camera is the one that should be used when determining timing issues such as this. The reason for that is obvious. The main camera is the one everybody looks at. Had they followed the protocol, they would have made the ruling based on what the main camera showed. Nobody would have ever known what the camera in the replay booth showed and there would be no controversy. The ruling on the field that the game clock had run out during the first Hail Mary would have stood and Western Michigan would have the victory.

The NFL has a protocol that says even if replay shows the play ended with one second still on the clock, they do not put time back on the clock. If it's that close, the call on the field stands and the game is declared over. If there isn't at least a two second error, the play stands as called on the field.

[Royell Storing]

I officiated high school and college football for over 25 years. I think I know what the official clock is and it's the clock on the primary scoreboard. You obviously misunderstood what the explanation was by the Big 10. The issue is with how the replay cameras are synced to the stadium clock. All the video cameras are supposed to be synced to the stadium clock before the game. There is a technical problem that causes the main TV camera that superimposes the first down line on the screen to fall about quarter second behind the other cameras. That's why the main camera showed the clock hit 0:00 before the pass was touched out of bounds while the end zone camera showed there was still 0:01 second on the stadium clock when the ball was touched. While the end zone camera was probably the more accurate one, the replay protocol dictates that the main broadcast camera is the one that should be used when determining timing issues such as this. The reason for that is obvious. The main camera is the one everybody looks at. Had they followed the protocol, they would have made the ruling based on what the main camera showed. Nobody would have ever known what the camera in the replay booth showed and there would be no controversy. The ruling on the field that the game clock had run out during the first Hail Mary would have stood and Western Michigan would have the victory.

The NFL has a protocol that says even if replay shows the play ended with one second still on the clock, they do not put time back on the clock. If it's that close, the call on the field stands and the game is declared over. If there isn't at least a two second error, the play stands as called on the field.

   Funny that you would mention the "1st down line on the screen". That "line" is also Not, "Dead on balls accurate". Just like the game clock.
   And do Not get me started on the actual "spotting" of the football. That is "putzed" up very often. Sometimes on purpose. This was made obvious with this repeatedly being done in favor of the KC Chiefs during the NFL Playoffs.

[John Corbett]

   Funny that you would mention the "1st down line on the screen". That "line" is also Not, "Dead on balls accurate". Just like the game clock.
   And do Not get me started on the actual "spotting" of the football. That is "putzed" up very often. Sometimes on purpose. This was made obvious with this repeatedly being done in favor of the KC Chiefs during the NFL Playoffs.

I know that the first down line is not official. The officials on the field are not even aware of it. They spot the ball based on it's furthest forward progress point at the time the ball became dead. The problem is that putting that line down causes a brief discrepancy between the main camera and the other cameras and throws it out of sync with the scoreboard clock. I wasn't aware of that until this incident. Even though it is likely the main camera is the one that is off when there is a discrepancy between what the various cameras show, that is the one replay protocols should be accepted when there is a discrepancy of a fraction of a second. Replay was intended to correct obvious officiating errors. It was not intended to micro-manage the game down to the last fraction of a second. If two cameras show a different result, the call on the field is supposed to stand.

Officiating football is not an exact science. Often when the ball is spotted, the officials are taking an educated guess as to where the ball was when the runner was determined to be down. The same is true of timing issues. For sixty minutes, minor discrepancies in timing are not second guessed. Why should that be done at the end of the game? That is why replay protocols are created so that only obvious errors are corrected. Those protocols were not followed in the WM/UM game and WM was robbed of a victory their players had earned.