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Kenny Britt's penalty may have been a missed call, but did it matter? Survey says... Not a chance...

As I've made mention at other points in my blog, I was born and raised in Nebraska. As I've also said, the only sport Nebraska really has is Cornhusker football. During football season, 84.2% of the state treat Nebraska football like a religion. Every Saturday during the season, I see between 5 and 20 Facebook statuses pertaining to Nebraska football.

Keeping that in mind, I've found it to be utterly hilarious what what Nebraska Facebook friends have focused they're attention on since their team lost the Big Ten title game to Wisconsin. Early in the 3rd quarter, Nebraska scored a quick touchdown, which was called back because of an unnecessary roughness penalty on wide receiver Kenny Britt. Via replay, it appeared as if Britt didn't make helmet-to-helmet contact, but the hit was so vicious, that it left the Wisconsin player down for a couple minutes. This is what Nebraska fans have focused their attention on in the world of Facebook. While I feel the penalty was very debatable, Nebraska did later score in that drive. so the team fortunately didn't lose any points because of the potential missed call. They might have lost a couple minutes of game time, but let's look at the reality of the situation here. At that point in the game, Nebraska was down 49-10. Let me repeat that - when Kenny Britt called called for unnecessary roughness that negated a touchdown, the Cornhuskers trailed the Badgers by 39 points - the equivalent of five touchowns, five extra points, and two safeties. The final of the game was 70-31, and it was only that close because of two 4th quarter touchdowns Nebraska scored when Wisconsin toned things down a notch on both sides of the ball. If Wisconsin had placed their foot on the gas pedal for the 4th quarter, chances are that final score would have been around 84-24. In any case, Nebraska got hammered in the game, and that one possible missed call didn't alter that fact any. What was the final score? That's right - 70-31, and it wasn't even that close...

http://espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?id=323360275
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