OK, so I DVR'd the thing, and glancing through my recordings just now I noticed the "information description" on Xfinity. Oh, jeez, here we go: this is how denigration is embedded and ingrained into society.
By the way, I've always personally referred to it as "The F*ck Rule".
The Timeline: S2 Ep 12 - The Tuck Rule
"The story behind the controversial play call that secured a playoff victory for the Patriots in a season that ended with a New England Super Bowl win."
(*Sigh...)
First of all, there is nothing controversial about the play, or the call. It was simply a play called correctly by the referee after the mandatory benefit of replay.
If there's anything "controversial", it could be the rule itself, created by the league.
Secondly, as we've pointed out here above, nothing was "secured". Many difficult, clutch plays made under intense pressure by the Patriots, along with failures by the Raiders led to the game's result. Had the play stood as called on the field, it most likely would have secured a victory for Oakland. After which, they very likely would have lost in Pittsburgh.
It is, in several respects, an opposite scenario of what transpired in the 1976-77 playoffs. Including total injustice to the Patriots in '76, and as usual, nothing unfair occurring to the Raiders in '02.