anyone see that amazing catch in the Alabama/Southern Miss game?

[Syrinx]

It was truly an amazing catch. Tyrone Prothro caught the ball with his arms wrapped around the USM defender's head. I've never seen anything quite like that.

Southern Mississippi gave us (Alabama) quite a scare, but, damn, that was an amazing reception!

[Rocinante]

1. I saw it...

and amazing is the word I would use too.

But I have a question. I had to take a phone call right after the play, so therefore I didn't see the replays, but it looked like he had a touchdown but it was ruled to be on the one yard line.

Here are some photos from the sports forum, but it's not clear from this where his knee touched.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x23202

Did you see the replays, and if so what do you think?

[Syrinx]

2. I thought it was a good call

I thought he scored when watching it live. But in the replay, it was clear he didn't quite get in the endzone. In fact, it looked like to me his knee went down at about the two. Amazing catch though. And we scored on the next play.

Cecil Hurt had a nice column about that very strange game in the paper today.

TUSCALOOSA | Did you ever go to the theater and see a movie — a David Lynch film, perhaps, or a Luis Bunuel classic — and walk out asking yourself “What in the heck was that?”

Eighty thousand Alabama football fans know just what you mean.

Saturday night’s Alabama-Southern Miss football wasn’t a tragedy for Tide fans. The scoreboard at least revealed that much. And the plot was pretty straightforward — Alabama had a better football team than the Golden Eagles and thus won a football game it should have won.

But there is almost no explaining the twisting path the Crimson Tide took to get there. It contained elements of comedy. At other times, it played out like broad farce. It certainly contained things you rarely see in a football stadium. Take Tyrone Prothro’s catch at the end of the first half, for instance. In fact, you should double-take it. That’s what everyone in the stadium did, watching the instant replay board intently to see if they really could believe what their eyes had just seen as the diminutive Prothro reached completely around a USM defender to secure the football.

http://www.tidesports.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050910/NEWS/50911001/1067

[Syrinx]

3. here's a photo from the Tuscaloosa News

BamaLefty also has some very nice photos in the thread referenced by Rocinante in reply number one.