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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
The way I read it - the refs thought the pass from LT was an illegal forward pass, and decided that the play ended right there.
But the fact is that even if it was illegal, it is not a penalty that stops the play so the result of the play should count as the Steelers could simply decline the penalty.
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Well, they didn't blow the whistle. So even if that were the case, the play isn't over.
But in reading up on it this morning, they thought the first pass was illegal, not the actual lateral that Polamalu picked up and ran in. They mixed the two up when reviewing some how. There would be no reason to stop the play if the first one was illegal as it would've been a penalty, not a stoppage of play. Either way, they messed it up.