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Originally Posted by GirlySports
But once the linesman signals touchdown and whistles go off the play is over. The ref trusts his linesman so he signals touchdown for everyone to see. The ump at the back of the endzone also sees the linesman signal TD so he doesn't care anymore. The Steelers are no longer fighting for the ball and the Dolphins just happened to pick up the ball cause it was there!
The linesman had the WORSE angle to make the call, he just assumed Ben made it and that's wrong. Even in slow-motion replay at his angle we couldn't see anything. The clear angle of Ben fumbling was the camera at the goalpost.
I can't see a solution to this unless you allow dogpiles after the whistle.
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Nope, when there's a loose ball like that the officials are supposed to stay involved because of the potential for situations like this to arise. They didn't.