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Old Tue Jan 16, 2018, 05:51pm
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Originally Posted by crosscountry55 View Post
Happened after the Fail Mary a few years back and on one other recent instance that I can’t put my finger on. Understand you’d need to do it if a defensive conversion could alter the outcome, but otherwise it’s stupid. Wikipedia says it’s because regulation points factor into one of the lower level tiebreakers. I can buy that, though teams just take a knee anyway (the odds of one or two points in a season-long cumulative points tiebreaker making a difference or even coming into play in the first place are astronomically low). Furthermore, it makes ZERO sense in a post-season game. They need to scrap that rule; it’s painfully anticlimactic.
I've heard the same thing about the tiebreaker. Of course in this particular game the spread was most commonly 4.5, 5 or 5.5, I believe. I know there were people who weren't happy to see them just take a knee.

I included that more to suggest that if that's the biggest thing people have to say about the officiating, the game must have been pretty well-officiated.
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