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To: Dilbert San Diego
It's not like this hasn't happened before-poor officiating costing a team a possible Super Bowl trip.

The previously-unheard-of "tuck rule" immediately comes to mind.

And how many here recall the original "Hail Mary Pass" in the 1975 playoffs, when Roger Staubach launched a last second desperation pass to Drew Pearson, who body-slammed Nate Wright to the turf before waltzing into the end zone with the winning score? And the official standing there scratching his a**?

Minnesota fans (myself included) we're livid; one of them so much so he beaned an official with a whiskey bottle.

Yes, it was over 43 years ago.

It's not like Vikings fans (myself included) would carry a grudge...

108 posted on 01/21/2019 12:42:48 PM PST by daler
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To: daler

The previously-unheard-of “tuck rule” immediately comes to mind.


Only because you didn’t pay attention. Patriots fans were, for example, made aware of it again earlier in the same season during the Mo Lewis game against the Jets when they were on the losing side of it.


122 posted on 01/21/2019 1:42:59 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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