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Anyone see the game between the Cowboys and Steelers yesterday?
Before this gets messy, most of you know that I am not a football official. I am confused by a play I saw and need someone to clear it up.
The specific play - please comment if you saw it and not give suppositions - involved a Cowboy receiver trying to catch a pass on the sideline. The pass was high and as he grabbed it, the D-back popped him. he was able to get one foot down, but the other landed on theline as his body hit the turf. The covering official (LJ/SJ?) ruled completion and signalled for the clock to stop. Imediately anothe official came running down the sideline, looked him in the face and signalled incomplete vehemently. He kept shaking his head and signalling it as the two announcers said that it was clear that he was out of bounds. One supposed that the first was ruling that he would have come down in bounds had he not been pushed by the defense. The other said that the other official could not over rule it that way and was only able to judge whether he had control with both feet in bounds. Now, I know that these clones "clowns" usually don't ave a clue as to the rules, but why would the one official so vehemently over rule another? Is that the mechanic?
Again, I'm only looking for people that actually saw the play. It was challenged by Parcells, btw.
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