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Old Fri Feb 08, 2008, 12:23am
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Another example of the joke of instant replay.

It was supposed to correct obvious errors.

From the previous posts it appears most officials consider a 12th leaving the field to not be worth much of their bother.

A player one step from being off the field obviously had no bearing on the play as most of you have already agreed.

Can the NFL use a little common sense here?
This has nothing to do with common sense. The Giants had 12 players on the field no doubt about it. It is against the rules to have 12 players on the field. If they did not make that call, then everyone would have been crying conspiracy or accused the officials of ignoring the rules or purposely going against the Patriots. And even in NF rules and NCAA rules, this would be a penalty as well. In the NF you could make a case for Illegal Substitution not Illegal Participation.

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