It's been conclusively established that the refs blew the call. The circumstances and timing of the call make it historically bad, but such things happen. Herbie's commentary on ABC went a long way toward establishing the narrative-- since picked up and uncritically parroted by every national sports writer-- that it was "clearly correct." But given the camera angle ABC was using, I'm prepared to grant Herbie the benefit of the doubt and assume he was being genuine (though I'd bet money he's not familiar with the actual text of the OPI rule).
What makes me angry is that lots of people, Herbie included, are portraying ND fans as irrational butt-hurt whiners over this. We were robbed of a win in the biggest game of the year by an objectively bad call; even the ACC admitted they blew it. If you'd like to comment on that, do some f*cking research and make an argument why FSU's blown coverage doesn't matter, why it was OK for Pat Ryan to flag OPI on ND but not DPI on FSU, why it was right to miss PJ Williams blatantly removing his helmet after the play, etc.
But if you're not prepared to do that, don't f*cking opine on the call. And don't taunt us--especially you, Herbie, since you played a big role in creating this bullsh!t narrative--for being upset that the Irish were robbed of the season's best win by a sh!tty call.
