Which big moments in sports history ( shots / hits / goals / touchdowns /etc ) would have been overturned with modern technology ?

[CJasmer]

I would say the Patriots have at least 2 calls. One would have changed history. The plowing of the field against the Miami Dolphins for the field call. The other one was the absurd Tuck Rule against the Raiders in the playoff game.

 

[businesslawyer]

Not more UConn oriented with this? Larry Taylor's fake fair catch against Louisville would have taken the booth about half a second to correct (and probably caused them to laugh at the call).

 

[AZHuskiePop]

#1 answer:

Maradona handball goal in 1986. That would be one fewer World Cup title for the Arjees.

They would have won anyway . I watched that game live. Argentina was simply a better and that gave England a great excuse for losing .
Maradona’s run on his other goal in real time was the most spectacular play ever and even English fans know it .
He went through their D like they were practice cones .
But “ The Hand of God” will not be denied

 

[thekollieman]

Kevin Ollies assist to Reggie Miller in 2002 NBA Playoffs, round 1 vs. Nets, game 5 in OT. Reggie hit a 40 foot three to send the game to a second OT. Should not have counted.

This, to me, looks like an uncontroversially good basket. Was there debate about it at the time?

 

[temery]

Pretty much every America's Cup until the 1980s.

From what I remember every ship had to be made in its home country, then sailed to Newport. It was a great built in home court advantage.

Modern tech probably could have gotten better ships to Newport in better condition to win.

Off topic a bit, but I still love the "Warning, the Surgeon General..." sail put up as a ship was about to beat a ship sponsored by the tobacco industry.

 

[Waquoit]

Not one mention of the immaculate reception? Seems the most likely, and very historic, candidate.

I don't think that gets overturned. Inconclusive.

 

[ucp990411]

It was JC Martin. And you must've been fuming at Cleon Jones' shoe polish HBP too

I'll throw in Jeffrey Meier helping the Yankees get an undeserved HR.

JC Martin is correct. He was about a foot out of the baseline and the home plate umpire missed the call.

 

[huskyjawz]

Did Ed Ambruster interfere with Carlton Fisk in game 3 of the 1975 World Series, which cost the Sox the game? Consensus is he did but it wasn't called and the Sox lost the series in 7 games. Would an overturned call have changed the Series?

Should have been an easy call. When does a batter not run to first on that? He stood their with obvious intent to interfere.

 

[Rico444]

1985 World Series. Blown call at 1st base, that runner went on to tie the game and the Royals eventually won that game and the following in game 7.

 

[AidanFan20]

Armando Galaragga of the Tigers gets a perfect game taken away from a terrible call at first base by umpire Jim Joyce. At least Joyce admitted he made a mistake and was very emotional about it.

Jim Joyce lived in the Portland, OR area at the time, as I did. The next day, he went on one of the local sports-talk shows and gave a great interview about it.

So far as the play itself, Galaragga just tossed his hands in the area with little or no yelling, then calmly went back to the mound and got the next hitter out to preserve his no hitter.

The next day, Joyce was behind the dish, and the Tigers sent Galaragga out with the lineup cards. Joyce apologized profusely and Galaragga was totally cool about it.

Amazing show of sportsmanship!

 

[AidanFan20]

1972 Olympic basketball. One of the great injustices ever pulled.

 

[husky8273]

Almost every game would change in some way.

The Giants win the NFL CHAMPIONSHIP 1958. The game that "changed football" doesn't happen. And that changes every everything from that date on.

Frank Gifford interview 50 years later:

Well, speaking of that sudden death game, I know you wrote about it in your most recent book, The Glory Game, but are you still convinced that you were the victim of a bad spot? [Editor’s note: In the final minutes of the 1958 championship game, with the Giants clinging to a three-point lead, Gifford carried on third-and-four from the Giants 40 and appeared to have made a first down that would have enabled the Giants to run out the clock. Baltimore's Gino Marchetti broke his leg on the play, though, and in the confusion the official marked the ball just short of the marker. As this was before the days of instant replay, the Giants had no choice but to punt. Johnny Unitas then led the Colts to the game-tying field goal in the closing seconds and then, in the league’s first ever sudden-death overtime, the winning score.]
Oh yeah [Laughs]. But you know, I also understand it. I talked to the official, Ron Gibbs, and he agreed. Marchetti was moaning and groaning, “My leg! My leg!” and the officials were yelling, “Get off him! Get off him!” They marked the ball and I looked down at it and was like, “Good God!” Because I wasn’t even thinking we didn’t get the first down. I knew I’d made it. No question. And the way I see it—the way I still remember it—I lost about a yard on the mark. And I just couldn’t believe it. And then years later the official admitted it. He said, “You were right, Frank. We gave it a bad mark.”

 

[Waquoit]

1972 Olympic basketball. One of the great injustices ever pulled.

The USA lost because of replay in that one.

 

[dvegas]

Superstar Graham's rope assisted pin to take in WWWF title from Bruno Sammartino in 1977

 

[jleves]

1985 World Series. Blown call at 1st base, that runner went on to tie the game and the Royals eventually won that game and the following in game 7.

As a lifelong Cardinal baseball fan, I'll never forgive Don Denkinger. Course it probably wouldn't have mattered if Jack Clark would have held on to the easy pop up right after.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Did Tate George get the shot off in time ?

The only sports I can think of where modern technology has changed the outcome of many many games are baseball and tennis. Instant replay and stop motion video in baseball and in tennis the advent of Hawkeye, which has basically replaced lines people or prevented a bad call by a lines person.

 

[UofCT]

This, to me, looks like an uncontroversially good basket. Was there debate about it at the time?

I believe NBA reviews happened right after these playoffs in 2003. I recall a report saying this would have been overturned. Since the Nets still won the game and the series there wasn’t much controversy. I just wanted to post the video in all honesty since I’m a Indy fan and it includes Ollie.

 

[Deepster]

Johan Santana's "no hitter" with the Mets. I never have recognized it as a true no hitter because of a blown call in the 6th.

VIDEO: Remembering When Umpires Gave Johan Santana a No-Hitter 8 Years Ago With Bad Call on Carlos Beltran

Never forget that the umpires actually gifted New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana a no-hitter on June 1, 2012.

www.12up.com

 

[John]

1999 Dallas Stars Stanley Cup game 6 goal by Brett Hull

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Almost every game would change in some way.

The Giants win the NFL CHAMPIONSHIP 1958. The game that "changed football" doesn't happen. And that changes every everything from that date on.

The referee moving the ball after Frank Gifford's run, taking away a first and ten (where the Giants could have run out the clock), leadig to a fourth and inches, with the Giants punting. Unitas drove the Colts ~70 yards for a TD to tie the game, the Colts won in OT.

Yes, this game did more to grow NFL football as a television product than anything before or since but the ball spot was bad, by well over a yard.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Not one mention of the immaculate reception? Seems the most likely, and very historic, candidate.

This is something where the I believe the NFL has intenctionally gone out of its way to maintain the mystery where there really should not have been any from shortly after the game ended. Every replay shows the obtructed view of the collision (that led to the deflection that Harris caught) with the camera catching Harris about 15 yards later running unobstructed to the end zone, followed by the end zone view of Harris clearly picking up the ball before it hit the ground. The controversy being if the ball was deflected by Fuqua (Pittsburgh) or Tatum (Oakland).

At the time of the NFL's 75th anniversary (~1994) the firm I was working for at the time was consulting with NBC sports. NBC sports was given a few (then) commemorative video CD's (same size as a CD and DVD, earlier technoliogy than a DVD, could only be viewed on a PC with a CD drive at that time) of the NFL's greatest plays and a VP at NBC gave me one. That CD showed the play from all angles and they had one angle that was clear as day that Tatum hit Fuqua just before the ball got there and it deflected off Tatum's left shoulder, Fuqua did not touch the ball. I highly doubt the officials saw that until possibly long after the game was over and I'm very confident they took the stance that "nobody was in position to call it no TD so they had to allow it", although I do believe that some weight may be given to the Raiders' claim that the refs didn't want to piss off 65,000 Steelers fans at that point. And for the record, not only were the officials unsure at that time if the ball was deflected by Fuqua or Tatum, they likely did not know if Harris caught it before it touched the ground until afterwards.

One last comment; if the are using current rules, allowing technology to determine calls, shouldn't they also be using current rules that would allow an offensive player to catch a ball deflected by another offensive player?