NFL changing thier story on blown call in Giants game

[John Corn]

In the first report the NFL said the back judge did not throw the flag because he thought the guy was illegally downfield and not an eligible receiver.

Today they are changing thier story and saying, the back judge knew the guy was an eligible receiver, but did not see pass interference on the play.

OMG, this is even more of a joke than the first statement. The NFL is looking really bad on this one. And they know it. They are now looking into ways of changing what can and can't be reviewed at the end of a game.

I think they are probably changing thier story because pass interference is a judgement call and what can you do. It would never be subject to review.
But whether a guy was legal or not is not a judgement call. It is cut and dry and black and white and there is no reason why it shouldn'e be allowed to be reviewed.

They really screwed this one up.
I don't care so much from a standpoint of the Giants game. I am not a Giants fan. But just in terms of the future and preventing this from happening again, they need to sort this out soon.

[BobMurdoch]

First things first......

Make challenges legal in the last two minutes (hoping that a referee is awake in the booth and calls one <the way it is now> is stupid)

Keep the two challenges per half and take one away on a rejected challenge UNLESS there are no timeouts remaining in which case they can still have a challenge if they have one remaining. If no time outs are remaining then take 10 seconds off of the clock as a disincentive for frivilous challenges UNLESS there is no time left.

The goal should be to get it right. San Francisco would have challenged the negated interception (which replay showed was not an interception as the ball touched the ground before he controlled it) and the Giants would have challenged the field goal fiasco. I can't tell you how many times the Giants have had bad plays kick them out of the playoffs. (The Vikings defender stepping one foot out of bounds and stepping back in for an interception in the endzone when Cunningham came off the bench to kill the Giants.... another year the Rams did something similar in Phil Simms' final year) Granted, the collapse worthy of the 86 Red Sox brought them to that point of NEEDING the correct call, but they still SHOULD have been allowed to rekick due to the offsetting penalties that SHOULD have been called.

[DCSholtis]

That story is funny as hell....Mike and the MadDog on YES are going nuts with this story two....Damn Giant fans havent stopped calling the show since Monday....not many Jets fans are getting thru the talk....IMHO the announcement was funny as hell.