Nav22;2431312 said:
It was an illegal forward pass, and the right call.
Look at where Tomlinson's feet are when the ball left his hand, and look at where the WR's feet are when he CATCHES the ball.
Two things here:
1. If an illegal forward pass is incomplete (it hits the ground), the play is dead at the point of the infraction. If the pass is complete, then the play continues and the other team has the option of declining the foul.
The referee even admitted after the game that it was ruled incorrectly... not that the actual illegality of the pass, but that the infraction should have been able to be declined.
2. And more important...
what did it matter? Regardless of whether it was a legal play, why was there an initial challenge and then 10 minutes of discussion? The steelers won anyway, never do officials discuss inconsequential plays for that long. Unless, of course, that play
wasn't inconsequential... i.e. there were gambling interests (the touchdown covered the spread for the Steelers).
Listen, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. If I really had to say something, I'd say there was no conspiracy. But there should have been
some outrage,
some discussion. Instead, it was hushed up conveniently by the NFL and people just moved on.
The NFL really is the Teflon league. If an inconsequential end-of-the-game spread-covering shot was discussed for 10 minutes in the NBA, people would have been all over this.
