"Absolut Bullshit"... Notre Dame vs. Michigan

My new weekly series "Absolut Bullshit" will focus on questionable calls and overlooked happenings around the football world. I am sure Tom Brady will come up often in this series, but I already touched on him and his fake week 1 victory, so I'll let that subject rest.... for now.

I was outraged by the last 11 seconds, or lack there of, in the ND vs. Michigan game on Saturday. Clausen and company ran the next to last play of the game, and whom ever controls the official time clock allowed it to run down to 9 seconds. The Irish protested and successfully had the clock readjusted to read 11 seconds. A moment before the final snap of the game the clock jumped back to read 9.

After the mysterious 2 second jump, Clausen completed a pass and as the WR headed for the sideline he fumbled the ball... out of bounds. Anywhere in the football world that stops the clock. The ball was clearly out of bounds with one second on the clock, and if not for the illegal 2 second readjustment, it would have had 3 seconds left. Instead the officials call the game and immediately run off the field. No review, no discussion.

The worst part of this debacle was that ABC and the commentators just ignored all of this and it has received little attention in the media. Even Charlie Weiss was too scared to call out this bullshit win by Michigan. His only comment was to say the officiating in the game was questionable. If I was a ND player I would be livid.

I'll call out one more guy real quick. Andy Reid. This pudgy coach is a real genius in my opinion. He has had the same starting QB for a decade. He has put up a facade portraying he and Donovan Mcnabb as partners in crime. I will say, in no uncertain terms, that Reid has given up on Mcnabb and has every intention of replacing him by the end of 2009.

It all started when he drafted Kevin Kolb in 2007. He picked up Vick a few weeks ago and today, the day after Mcnabb suffers a minor injury, he signs Jeff Garcia as insurance. So now Donovan has a broken rib, a coach with an itchy trigger finger, and three QB's close behind him on the depth chart: a young, high draft pick, a former 100 million dollar QB, and a veteran who replaced him very successfully only a few short years ago. Kinda' like the Ghosts of christmas past, present and future.