So what you object to is that the account given by Sarkisian, which is supported by all objective data, is inconvenient because it means that all of bad feelings you had about Worthy were invalidated. Even with all of the facts that support it, you would rather cling to the hurt you felt when Worthy dropped those passes.
You actually think it's more likely that Sark was lying through his teeth and Worthy wore a fake cast, and the statistical anomaly just happened to line up exactly with the time period, than it is you might have been wrong.
There is a reason that fan is short for fanatic.
You think the only person who knew the details of the injury was Worthy's doctor? You don't think it was whispered about in real time? Sark does as good a job as I've ever seen about keeping things in house, but kids still talk.
Once again, how are the stats useless? You don't like them because they contradict your feelings. Maybe that's why they are useless to you.
No, you have not defined the criteria... for example, is "big game" defined by ranked opponent, or top 5 opponent, or bowl game, or playoff game, or rivalry game (and what defines a rivalry game,) etc. "Crunch time" is even more nebulous. Does that mean only less than 4 minutes, less than 2 minutes, 4th quarter, all red zone, only some redzone, when down by less than one score, by down than less than two scores, etc.
See, unless you define the parameters, you can't determine the framework by which to evaluate objectively. You can only go off of feelings.
If you actually did this, and then review every chance that Worthy had to make a catch, you would see that he wasn't as bad overall in those scenarios as you remember.
