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After the biggest, strongest and fastest men in the world collide for 60 minutes and end up tied, the fate of the game is decided by the thumb of some scrawny referee.
In 1998, in perhaps the greatest coin toss controversy in football history, Pittsburgh and Detroit went into overtime in the Thanksgiving game. Jerome Bettis called “tails” for the Steelers, but for some reason referee Phil Luckett heard “heads.”
Neither team has reason to complain when both get the ball—that is, as long as the referee has gotten his hearing checked.
Perhaps the best summary of the game was not offered by any of the Crimson seniors, but by a frustrated Providence fan yelling in the direction of a referee.
Late in the second overtime, the Terriers created another tense moment for Harvard when Cook slid in the box and redirected a shot into the net. But as the BU bench cheered and began to rush the field, the referee called the goal back due to offsides.