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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.When they say forgotten play I think of this one.
That game sucked and that play sucked.
I was thinking the intentional safety on the puntFellow posters: when you saw the thread title, did you guess it might be this play? I know I did.
Where's my tinfoil hat, conspiracy to kill the dynasty even then...flu in Indy the next year, helmet catch/no holding call, Bernard fing pollard, etc.etcits very annoying that big calls were missed in most of the patriots playoff losses starting at 2005
The untold story of that great play by Watson is that he forced Bailey to fumble THROUGH the endzone, which by rule would have given the ball back to the Pats on the 20. Yeah that's right. It might be a dumb rule, but it's still the rule today. Unfortunately for the Pats the refs understandably missed it and there was no DIFINITIVE camera angle to reverse the call. Even fewer cameras back 10 years ago. So it wasn't exactly a robbery, but rather a misfortune
Just pure awesomeness (given the circumstances).
Remembering one of the greatest forgotten plays in Patriots history
Fellow posters: when you saw the thread title, did you guess it might be this play? I know I did.
The untold story of that great play by Watson is that he forced Bailey to fumble THROUGH the endzone, which by rule would have given the ball back to the Pats on the 20. Yeah that's right. It might be a dumb rule, but it's still the rule today. Unfortunately for the Pats the refs understandably missed it and there was no DIFINITIVE camera angle to reverse the call. Even fewer cameras back 10 years ago. So it wasn't exactly a robbery, but rather a misfortune,
Nevertheless, it is THAT play that will always make Ben Watson a favorite of mine, even though he currently plays for the dispiseable Ravens (on IR). I look forward to his retirement so he can come back and hang at Gillette and get all the accolades he deserves. Or maybe we resign him if he comes back healthy and have him back up Gronk and Bennett and do a swan song year.
When they say forgotten play I think of this one.
Troy Brown's strip of that interception in 2006 was the greatest play I have ever seen.
I disagree there was no definitive angle to reverse the call. It was clear on replay the ball went through the endzone. There was no way for the ball not to have. Bailey had it in his field-side arm and was tackled so close to the goalline that to not go through the endzone the ball would have had to have flown directly across his body and not gone downfield at all. Which isn't what happened.
The problem is that the ref was Jeff Triplette -- the stupidest and most incompetent ref in the league, then and now.