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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments."Here is the rule: In order for a field goal that crosses over the top of the upright to be good, the entire ball must pass inside the outside edge of the upright extended."
The kick looked good from every angle I saw. If that kick had been called no good for the Patriots, I'd be mad.
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There were a lot of officiating problems in that game, the kick was not one of them. It was the right call. As to why it's not reviewable, probably because the officials under the goalposts have the best view, and the TV camera angles are likely to have an angle that would make it look different on the replay. If stadiums had officially placed (and aligned) cameras somewhere, I could see them making it reviewable, but not with just the TV feeds.
Right. I was saying that the rule may be different if there was an aligned, objective camera angle to go off (say, two cameras at 90 degrees) with a shared timecode so that you could tell when the ball was over the pole. Just my speculation, though.Not reviewable, period:
Mike Pereira @MikePereira
A FG that goes over the top of an upright is not reviewable because you cannot determine when exactly the ball is directly over the pole
I haven't seen the video, but according to one mediot I was listening to, the refs raised their arms before it crossed the plane of the goal post...
Mike Pereira would be considered by many to be THE expert on officiating. His explanation is in agreement with what was said last night in the broadcast. In short, I would say, yes.
Collinsworth, I believe, said that between the uprights is reviewable, over is not.
Why would it need to be reviewed if its between the uprights? If its between its good, if its over, thats when its tought to tell whether its good or not. Sounds bass-ackwards.
I scoured the NFL rulebook,
But why didn't NBC have that "up-angle" view of the FG, looking up from beneath the cross bar? They almost always have that angle for the Sunday afternoon games. Why wouldn't they have a cameraman positioned underneath the uprights for the week's biggest game, on what was a game winning or losing moment? Usually NBC is a lot more on the ball than that. They even had a kicker-freeze time out to get a cameraman over there.