It's official: Temple got screwed (Soft Pretzel Logic)

It's official: Temple got screwed

Kevin Tatum reports in this morning's Inquirer:

According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the Mid-American Conference yesterday admitted that its officials blew the call when a touchdown reception by Owls wide receiver Bruce Francis was disallowed with 40 seconds remaining in the team's 22-17 loss to host Connecticut on Sept. 15.

Well now. As if we all didn't feel dumped on enough after Brian Giles' homer drove a stake into Phillies' fans hearts overnight.

Then again, we surely knew this was coming, didn't we? It was just that blatant. So blatant that we even listened to a conspiracy theory or two.

But at least UConn didn't sell its soul to the devil. At least not yet...

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Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on September 26, 2007 1:57 PM | Permalink

Comments (2)

Owl Fan:

Its nice to know that we got screwed, but at the end of the day, what does it matter?

We are still not that good of a team

Posted by Owl Fan | September 26, 2007 4:39 PM

Posted on September 26, 2007 16:39

utRockets03:

As a graduate of The University of Toledo, all I can say is, "Welcome to the MAC."

Posted by utRockets03 | September 27, 2007 10:09 AM

Posted on September 27, 2007 10:09

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