MINNEAPOLIS, MN. — I thought boyz were going to have to pay Jeff Brohm’s bail on Friday night. After a ref called his tight end, Payne Durham, for an offensive pass interference in the closing minute of a 34-31 loss to the Gophers, Brohm was furious.
With less than a minute to play Jack Plummer found Durham in the corner of the end zone for what appeared to be a touchdown. However, the ref must have been using old lady Harden’s broken glasses and called the tight end for offensive pass interference when all he did was push the defender’s hand off of him as they were hand fighting. TERRIBLE call in my Charles Barkley voice, “TERRIBLE!”
That touchdown would have put the Boilermakers up 37-31 and they would have potentially won the game barring any foolishness in the final seconds.
Brohm not only gave the ref a piece of his mind but he gave him his entire head and shoulders too. I grew up in Any Hood, USA (Gary, IN.) and I know that look Brohm was giving ole boy too. As other coaches tried to get in between him and the ref he was giving him that, “You lucky they paying me $5 million a year or I’d fire on you right now playa!”
On the very next play Plummer throws a pick, game over! After the ball game Brohm had this to say when asked about the play.
“You know what I think. I can’t really comment on it. It’s part of the game and we’ve got to move forward, but yes, I didn’t like it at all.”
He goes on to say, “I wish I could comment what I really think. We send calls in [to the Big Ten], and sometimes they agree with us, sometimes they don’t. I don’t have the replay and can see it. I just know there was a touchdown [Minnesota] caught earlier in the game, about the same area on the slot receiver, he gave a little nudge and they didn’t call that. I’ll just stop there. A big score at the end and it gets called back. I guess we had a penalty.”
Brohm played it cool in the presser but I know he was wishing that dun would come walking through just so he could give him more of his head and shoulders. You know how it is. You know you can’t punch the guy but if you curse him out really good you feel better about it. That was Brohm last night bruh.
Purdue did have a ton of missed opportunities though. Like the old school coaches would always say, “One play didn’t lose you the ball game son.” But if you want to tell a boy that you got robbed by a dun with a butter knife I’m cool with that too. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
- Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
