PatsWickedPissah

Yes, that would be moronic, but that is NOT what happened.

LEARN THE GAME!

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AStack75

What happened? That was my understanding of what happened also.

PatsWickedPissah

There was a 5 yard penalty for the 'illegal' consequitive TO. 51-5 does not equal 36. NFL gamebook has the details I'm sure.

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AStack75

I also thought it was a 15-yard penalty. I could be wrong.

EDIT: (from ESPN.com)
Lindell made a 51-yard attempt that didn't count because Gibbs called timeout just as the ball was snapped. Gibbs then called another timeout as Lindell lined up a second time, but consecutive timeouts aren't allowed in the NFL -- and they result in a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when specifically called to freeze the kicker.

Aqua4Ever04 had it right.

PatsWickedPissah

I stand corrected on the penalty being 15 vs 5 yards. I looked it up and confirmed it.

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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck." RAH

Dragda

It was a 15 yarder for unsportsmanlike conduct. I thought it should have been a five yard delay of game.

ctpatsfan77

Up until a few years ago, the second TO would have just been ignored. Unfortunately, one team got a little too cute with that rule (calling "fake" TOs to screw with kickers), so the Polian Committee made it unsportsmanlike conduct.

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