[Hemingway's Ghost]

Anyone who watches the replay sees clearly that he was NOT bringing the ball back in a tuck.

Your beef is with the NFL rulebook, my friend. Don't blame the officials for getting the call right, or Belichick for knowing the rules so well he knew to throw the red flag.

Sierra Golf . . .

[Wristpin]

Your beef is with the NFL rulebook, my friend. Don't blame the officials for getting the call right, or Belichick for knowing the rules so well he knew to throw the red flag.

Yep and lost on many Raider fans is that on the ensuing game winning drive, Patriot receivers broke almost a dozen tackles getting to the sidelines killing the clock. Troy Brown broke three tackles on one play!

The Raiders were old and gave up.

[Eagles Talon IV]

I live in MA, I am surrounded by fanatical Pats fans and to a one they all agree it was a fumble and I mean EVERY ONE of them. As I have said before, I am not claiming partisanship on the part of the referee I am merely saying the call was blown. In a contested call the evidence has to be irrefutable to overturn the call on the field. Not only was the replay not showing irrefutable evidence of a tuck it was showing exactly the opposite. I saw that game with 4 of my neighbors, all Pats fans and not a one of them saw what apparently you did.

As I said, these things even out in the end and the Pats have and will get calls against them as will every other team. But to claim in this particular instance that the refs got the call correct is just plain bogus.