at home with friends and I remember I was pissed the rest of the day. I remember I broke my remote I was so pissed. Still am. Damn why did you have to bring it up?

Still have a VHS copy of this game I recorded as it happened. If you can get your hands on one, check out the last seconds before the final OT field goal (if you have the stomach) The camera settles on the scoreboard just long enough for the world to see the score at Raiders 13 Patriots 16 BEFORE THE KICK!! IN OT!! IMPOSSIBLE, but it happened!

I am a lifelong Razorback fan and Raider fan. When that call was made, I was watching on tv and screaming at Walt Coleman, the referee (who happens to be from Arkansas, too). I saw his father that fall and told him to tell Walt that he blew it…I was watching on that “TD” that Rob Lytle didn’t score. I almost had a stroke over that one, too. Lester Hayes is my favorite former Raider…I remember his record setting year in interceptions….and he had 3 called back in Denver. I always knew that the Silver and Black would never get a fair shot with the officials, especially in Denver or KC. Hope all the Raider Nation will enjoy D-Mac as much as Razorback fans have for the last 3 years.

and missed the game, the play, just saw the final score and was depressed naturally. Only in the following days did I see some highlights etc. At the time in China, internet connections were difficult at best so never really got to see the play clearly. It is nothing new that the Raiders would get screwed by a referee call. Because of my situation at the time it doesn’t hurt as much since I didn’t see it, or live it.
I was in Thailand when the Raiders lost to the Bucs in the Super Bowl, so that doesn’t hurt as much either. But now I am home for good, it is time to get serious. By the way, was listening to Gigantino on KNBR this morning , he doesn’t think Russell will be a top flight QB, for our sakes we have to hope he is wrong.

I was at work listening to the game on Radio. I can’t recall the guys calling the game (on Westwood One, Trumpy I think ) but I can hear his voice in my head as we speak. He said while awaiting the refs in the replay booth “what’s taking the refs so long to see if it was a fumble. It’s clearly a fumble. If the refs call this a fumble, Al Davis will come outta the suite and onto the middle of the field.” At that point I felt at ease with his comments. When the refs finally announced the call, a tear came out of my right eye. I could not believe it. I taped the game and still have the VHS tape. It’s labled 1-19-01 My Last Game. I declared that I would never watch another football game ever. Time heals all wounds and I was watching my Raiders again the next season. But I did not watch the remainder of the playoffs and the Super Bowl. Can you believe a hardcore football fan not watching the Super Bowl? That’s how pissed I was.

I was at one of my wifes friends parties and I talked her into turning on the game for me. Another one of my wife’s friends was from Boston and the whole game we’re going back and forth about the game. After the tuck rule play she didn’t say another word cause I was so pissed off. After the game I went and took a long walk around the apartment complex we were at before I could join the party. Things got worse when I went home. I jumped into my 01 Mustang GT and started driving home I noticed that my head lights didn’t look right and wasn’t really bright. Then when I tried to change lanes my turn signals didn’t work. Well needless when I got home I looked and saw why my lights were so dim. I was running off of my fog lights only because my headlight assemblies were gone. Those things cost $600 each.

I remember where I was….......AT THAT GAME!!!! My son and I had gotten tickets on the day of the game from a local radio station that was auctioning them off to benefit a battered woman shelter (good cause) and I had outbid a Patsy fan. We wore our Raider gear in the midst of all of the cowards and I say that because some coward during the game had poured hot chocolate on the back of my son’s white Jerry Rice jersey during the game and ruined it. It was a good thing that we didn’t see it until after the game because I’m sure that my son had a Jack Tatum type hit that he would have laid on the Patsy coward had he known. The only consolation that I have is that WE can say that we were there and I take comfort in knowing that the Zebra’s helped the Patsy’s out of 40+ years of ineptitude. Something that the Raiders could only attain by losing for another 15+ years. Just don’t see that happening. So the gloating in New England is over and it’s great to see the disappearance of all of the Patsy fans who have crawled back under their wet rocks with the loss to the Giants and it seems as though the “gold standard” has been severely tarnished knowing that they’ve cheated over the years and they just ain’t the fine, upstanding men that they would like to portray themselves to be.