10 years ago today, Champ Bailey thought it was a touchback

[primetime]

SOURCE: A decade later Champ makes admission on famous return

A decade later, Champ Bailey admitted Bill Belichick had a beef. The ruling of a non-touchback has had Belichick futilely trying for 10 years to correct by putting cameras at the goal lines.

“I get it,” Bailey says of Belichick’s quest in the book "Mile High Magic: The 25 Greatest Moments in Denver Broncos History (authored by muh!). “Because I thought it was a touchback. When I was on the sideline, I was saying, ‘Did the ball cross? Did I get in? Did I get in?’ Everybody on our bench of course was optimistic. ‘Yeah, you got in.’

“I was like, ‘I don’t think I got in.’ And then when they put it at the 1, I thought, “Wow, that’s great.”

**** that play, **** that game, and **** Jeff Triplette.

I can't believe it was ten years ago!

 

[Froob]

Yep...got screwed.

 

[turkeyneck]

SOURCE: A decade later Champ makes admission on famous return



**** that play, **** that game, and **** Jeff Triplette.

I can't believe it was ten years ago!

 

[Mack Herron]

I'd like to have Watson this weekend. Best year of his career.

 

[primetime]

It didn't even occur to me that Belichick's goal line camera crusade started that moment, but it definitely makes a ton of sense.

 

[tasmlab]

So where would the ball be placed and who would be in possession if it were a touchback?

(I just read the rule 10 times on Wikipedia and am apparently not smart enough to get it.)

 

[Gumby]

It didn't even occur to me that Belichick's goal line camera crusade started that moment, but it definitely makes a ton of sense.

Agreed. And every Pats fan remembers Watson' hustle on that play. Epitomized the team selflessness and never-quit attitude. (Butler had that same grit in SB and most of this season.) If called correctly, it would have been one of top 10 all time nfl plays IMO.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

So where would the ball be placed and who would be in possession if it were a touchback?

(I just read the rule 10 times on Wikipedia and am apparently not smart enough to get it.)

Patriots ball at the 20

 

[memento]

I remember MIT retraced the ball's trajectory and said there's no way it wasn't a touchback.

The next day I shoveled snow thinking that was the most heroic play out of a loss I had ever seen

 

[denverpatsfan]

I was at that game. NOT good times. I also remember Asante getting a PI flag after the refs were hounded by the home town fans. AWFUL officiating that night.

We did have a pretty good tailgate however.

 

[Triumph]

I was there

Steelers went on to win the SB

 

[Hammer of Thor]

I was at that game. NOT good times. I also remember Asante getting a PI flag after the refs were hounded by the home town fans. AWFUL officiating that night.

We did have a pretty good tailgate however.

That was the worst officiated Patriots playoff game of my lifetime. And that takes a lot since the next year in Indianapolis the refs managed to call a penalty that didn't exist. I wasn't alive for the Ben Dreith game so outside of that call, I don't know how it went.

All of that got overshadowed because the actual worst officiated game of the 2005 postseason happened afterwards. Congrats to Pittsburgh on their Super Bowl "victory"!

 

[Patriot Missile]

Can't believe that game. Turned it over 4 or 5 times and about lapped them in yardage. Still were in it despite the turnovers.