For those too young to remember, Mike Renfro is the biggest single reason instant replay review exists in sports now. He was robbed of a TD late in the AFC Championship game vs the Steelers which would have sent the Oilers to the first and only Superbowl in the team’s history. Referees on the field ruled he came down with the catch with one foot out of bounds, replay showed he clearly got both feet in.
Some friends and I were in a bar (I know,
shocking!) in the Caribbean someplace, the Cowboys at the Steelers were on the TV. Place was packed with Steeler people, all decked out in their gamer gear waving Terrible Towels and such. My long-suffering wife was sitting near a woman whose husband was engrossed completely by the game. She said, "Oh, him? He knows everything about the Steelers.
Everything. Just ask him..." I looked over at this fellow, and said, "Renfro caught that ball."
"HE DID NOT! HE DID NOT! HE WAS OUT OF BOUNDS!"
My wife later asked me what I had done to provoke this fellow. "What the hell did you tell him?"
"A statement about a play in the 1979 AFC Championship game."
"He got all freaked out over a game (does math)
37 years ago?!? You men are insane.
All of you."
