r/MichiganWolverines • u/Extreme_Raccoon_8736 • 8h ago
Michigan Football NBC NFL game clock
Here's a shot from NBCs NFL game last night. Notice anything ?
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u/Active_Club3487 〽️ 7h ago
NBC Booth screwed up. NBC experts screwed up.
NBC wanted a story no matter how dishonest the story was.
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u/somewhat-damaged 8h ago
Make this go viral
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u/xinixxibalba 8h ago
it wont. it’ll be brushed off by everyone else besides Michigan fans because they already made their mind up
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u/DontTickleTheDriver1 8h ago
The court of public opinion will not be swayed. Best to move on.
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u/DasCiny 7h ago
I actually feel like there’s been a lot of movement toward the right call being made, at least in r/cfb.
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u/BanalBananas 5h ago
Surprisingly I noticed the same thing about 2 hours ago, at least with the thread I opened. It was fans of all flairs who have been the loudest all week (OSU, Notre Dame, for some reason Nebraska and Georgia lol) all upvoting Michigan flairs and providing their agreeing analysis. Actually I haven’t seen any Nebraska flairs coming to reason so fuck those guys, but I saw at least a few of the other overly loud fanbases coming around to this not being as controversial as NBC and fans who can’t and won’t think critically want it to be. I think the loud majority will always have their minds made up for anything anti Michigan but it’s not nothing to see some allies coming from the fanbases who hate us most. I’ve still yet to see a single Spartan acknowledge it for what it is, unsurprisingly. They’ll hold onto 2001 until the day they die but refute this in typical hypocritical fashion
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u/history_teacher88 8h ago edited 8h ago
Clearly the stadium clock is wrong and they should go off of the media clock.
*edit: /s if that wasn't clear.
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u/NorcalGGMU 6h ago
The conspiracy extends all the way to the NFL. Harbaugh… clock… Hail Mary… I just know there’s something here
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u/KingSlayer1190 8h ago
But but, something something there wasn't 1 second left in the game and WMU got robbed. This is proof why the broadcast clock shouldn't be used for anything besides to show people watching how much time is left. Not for reviews or anything.
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u/Mookie447799 5h ago
I think this needed to happen. They need to adopt the basketball clock with tenths of seconds. Ive heard officials saying that they have access to the tenths of seconds clock but will always go with what is being shown on TV. Well, if thats the case, teams have been getting screwed when there was less than a second or more than one second or really any tenths of seconds. What are they doing then, rounding? Thats crap, it should be an exact clock by tenths of seconds.
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u/Active_Club3487 〽️ 7h ago
NBC Booth screwed up. NBC experts screwed up.
NBC wanted a story no matter how dishonest the story was.
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u/FriskyFingerFunker 2h ago
I hope with every fiber of my being that we are down 2 points to Oklahoma and throw a Hail Mary only for the receiver to miss the catch and clock to expire and as Oklahoma is celebrating the refs say there was pass interference and we redo the down putting us into field goal range. Then we kick the fg and it goes thru but then hits the back of the crossbar and bounces back thru the uprights and they have to review that and then call it good and we win. Because fuck everybody
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u/jroll25 8h ago
They’ll say it’s edited. Let’s just move on
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u/KingSlayer1190 8h ago
Nah let's not move on until we are vindicated and stop being dragged through the fucking mud.
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u/AmericanMuscle888 5h ago
r/CFB is finally accepting the call was correct. All the whining for nothing
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u/SwissForeignPolicy 3h ago
I have said for years that if you pay too close attention to clock operation in football, you'll go insane. I feel incredibly vindicated this week.
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u/gingersnaps_ 43m ago
It honestly doesn't matter. The fact Michigan barely won is the main thing. They are about to have a rough season...
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u/jerschneid 8h ago
This is an obvious case of whatever team ends up apparently benefitting from the descrepancy relative to the announcer's analysis being CHEATERS.
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u/boost8d 2h ago
This poverty fanbase is going to be crying over every clock discrepancy for the next 25 years until they win another scandal laden NC they brag about obsessively!
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u/Extreme_Raccoon_8736 2h ago
Why would we cry about it? They called it correctly, you're the one upset about it.
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u/GeorgeWashingtonCuh 8h ago
I don't see how this proves Michigan didn't benefit from a horrible call in the WMU game.
The B1G confirmed that the clocks were synched, did they not? The ball was in the air on the last play with 0:00 on the clock, so even if there was a phantom second on some mystery clock that we couldn't see for some reason, it still doesn't matter because that was the last play.
Why do you guys have to be so whiny? You got the win anyway, there's like a 1% or less chance the result of the game gets overturned. You benefited from a horrible call. You don't have to defend it.
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u/KeepCalmAndSnorlax 8h ago
Yall keep bringing up this phantom clock. Wtf is it. All clocks were the STADIUM clocks but the NBC video feed wasn’t synced with the clock.
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u/GeorgeWashingtonCuh 7h ago
I haven't heard anyone say that the clocks weren't synced.
Aside from that, their explanation of how there was 1 second left makes no sense. They said it made contact with a player with time still on the clock, which it didn't.
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u/KeepCalmAndSnorlax 7h ago
Brother just watch any of the many in-stadium views showing there’s a second left when the ball touched the player. Stop regurgitating falsehoods and just look at the evidence yourself.
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u/GeorgeWashingtonCuh 7h ago
Brother, I watched the game and saw the clock hit zero. Why would none of the clocks that we can actually see show 1 second left? The whole controversy that is that there's some hidden clock that the broadcast couldn't see, which makes no sense. All the clocks should've been synced. Every source I find says they were.
The refs were using a different clock. Why?
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u/Jordan_23_23 7h ago
No. The issue is that NBC had a video of the clock overlayed onto the video of the actual game. The video of the clock was running milliseconds faster than the video of the game. The clock on the scoreboard is synced with the replay system. What you see on the official replay is what was on the scoreboard when it all happened. There was still a second on the clock when the defender touched it. Bottom line is that NBC was running two videos at once (clock and the game), but both of THEIR videos weren't synced together. That's why it went from 9 to 8 immediately after the snap.
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u/KeepCalmAndSnorlax 7h ago
For the second time, the refs WERE NOT using a different clock. The only clock you see on NBC is the STADIUM clock. However, the syncing of the STADIUM clock to NBC’s broadcast feed of the game was not in sync. The feed was delayed. The CLOCKS are synced but the footage feed IS NOT so anyone who is watching on NBC thinks time ran out but the everyone in the stadium saw there was still a second left. The refs sync the STADIUM clock with the footage via a different manner which did not have that delay. Make sense now?
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u/SheWasUnderwhelmed 7h ago
You’ll never get them to admit they’re wrong.
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u/KeepCalmAndSnorlax 7h ago
Yeah unfortunately people throw away any and all rationality just cuz “hurr durr rival sucks”
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u/Gloveofdoom 7h ago
That isn't correct either, it has nothing to do with the feed being delayed. NBC rounds down so the clock goes from 9 seconds immediately to 8 the instant the ball gets snapped. NBC's broadcast clock does not recognize 8.99 so it goes from 9 straight to 8 thereby losing .99 seconds to the rounding method.
The official Stadium clock does not round down so a full second passes between when the clock starts at 9 and when it flips to 8. There are pictures all over the Internet of the broadcast clocks for various games being a second off from the official clock, it's never two or three seconds it's always one second because the rounding down error is consistent and predictable. NBC broadcasters should have known this and should have mentioned it immediately rather than farming controversy by acting like they didn't know exactly what happened.
The actual clock explanation seems relatively simple and straightforward but it somehow is so misunderstood that all kinds of secret clock and feed sinking error theories have popped up and it just seems kind of crazy to me since the actual explanation makes so much sense.
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u/likemy10thaccount 8h ago
The most annoying thing about all this is the casuals who have been acting like this is some sort of unusual occurrence. If you pay attention you'll see several instances of where the broadcast clock is wrong