⚖️ Referee decisions that still get brought up years later at family gatherings

There is one specific referee decision from a match nearly ten years ago now that still, without fail, comes up at almost every single family gathering the moment sports enters the conversation even slightly. My uncle brings it up, my father disputes his exact specific version of events, and the argument runs for a genuinely predictable ten minutes before someone eventually changes the subject entirely just to make it stop. Neither of them actually agrees on what genuinely happened that day. My uncle insists it was a clear, obvious, deliberate mistake by the referee. My father maintains it was a perfectly reasonable call given what the referee could actually see from his own specific position on the field at that exact moment. What amuses me most is that neither of them has actually rewatched the footage properly in years to settle this once and for all, both apparently preferring to keep relitigating it from memory rather than risk one of them being definitively proven wrong by whatever the replay actually shows. Last year I finally found the actual clip online during one particularly heated round of this exact same debate and showed it to both of them directly on my phone. It did not settle anything whatsoever. Both walked away somehow more convinced than before that their own original specific version was the correct one all along. I suspect this particular decision will genuinely outlive all of us at this point, quietly passed down as an unresolved family argument to whichever younger relative eventually inherits the role of referee for these annual sports debates once the current two participants are no longer around to keep having them themselves. Does every family have one specific old referee decision like this that simply refuses to die no matter how much time actually passes since it originally happened?

My father still insists one particular offside call cost his college team a state title decades ago now, and produces the exact same three tired arguments every single time regardless of who is actually listening or whether they have already heard the whole long story several times over before at previous family gatherings just like this one being held tonight.

A refereeing call from a school final still comes up every single time our old team gets together for a reunion, nearly fifteen full years later now and someone always brings it up within the first twenty minutes without fail at every single gathering we hold, usually the same uncle who was not even playing that particular day at all.