VolsSportsFan
Where are the turtles?
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The thing that is getting missed here is the referee signaled TOUCHDOWN first and foremost. He was standing right on the goal line when the play happened,why didn't he signal fumble or touchback first. Now with that said when they went to review it there was no clear evidence(100%) by the way the rules are stated for them to overturn the original call of a TOUCHDOWN. That's where the problem lies is with the initial call of a Touchdown on the play. Everybody knew he fumbled the ball but on review they could not say 100% it was a fumble from all the views I have seen. His fingers were still touching the ball when the ball crossed the plane of the goal line and I know he has to have control of the ball but evidence didn't show he didn't have control of the ball with his fingertips. Its no difference then a fingertip or one handed catch in the endzone or the sideline.
It wasn't missed, we had 3-4 threads about it where it was discussed ad nauseum. So stop hijacking this thread.