First of all, I would like to thank everyone for weighing in on this. After reading all the posts, I was about to acknowledge to my friend that he, indeed, was correct. However, I came across this play by play of the Monday Night game in question...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playby...meId=220930033
This is the espn play by play summary. According to the summary, the FGA by Elam at the end of the 1st half was BLOCKED. In my original post, I had asked what would happen if it was caught short on the fly in the EZ. This would be without any assistance from the defense (tips, "Alley Oops" ala RC Owens, or clear cut blocks). ESPN could have logged it as a block erroneously. Does anyone know where old recaps could be found of games besides ESPN? The date of the game was September 30, 2002. Thanks for all of your help!