[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I first read about this game online the morning after the game (I am sure that it was the Yahoo Sports article referenced in the OP).

As a football fan whose philosophy comes from that great college football coach, Woody Hayes: "Three things can happen when one passes the ball and two of them are bad." LOL! I found the explanation in the article lacking and found the uniform jersey shown in the articles picture quite benign.

I guess what I am asking is a somewhat technical yet geared toward the football fan explanation of the rule and how it was supposed to be applied and why the officials excepted an copy of an email sent to the coaches (and not to the officials I presume) to convince them to change their ruling?

MTD, Sr.