Nfl Makes Unprecedented Choice
Nfl makes unprecedented determination
Officiating teams join Football convention call
Pro football has scheduled a convention phone with every single member of each officiating team, FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reported Thursday on pro football Network. An officiating source told Glazer that the purpose of Friday's contact would be to give a pep talk and clean up mistakes by authorities. Sources say having all of the officials involved in the call is rare, if not unprecedented. The conference phone comes to the heels of two high-profile officiating decisions in Week 7.
Late in Sunday's match among the Steelers and Dolphins, Pittsburgh qb Ben Roethlisberger scrambled out of the pocket and lunged for the stop zone. The golf ball was knocked loose around the goal line, however the authorities dominated that Roethlisberger had won a td.
A Dolphins competitor surfaced from the ensuing end-zone pileup with the nfl. When the ball was decided on replay to have come out prior to Roethlisberger achieved the goal line, Miami thought it had a touchback. But because officials at first dominated that Roethlisberger had landed a td, they didn't bother to see who healed the ball, because it technically was no longer in play.
Pittsburgh was granted the golf ball to the Miami 1-yard line and went on to kick a go-ahead field purpose and hold on to get a 23-22 victory. The second controversy came from the Sunday night matchup between the Minnesota and Green Bay Packers, when MN tight stop Visanthe Shiancoe made a diving seize in the long run zone and seemed to secure the golf ball as he rolled onto his back. Officials ruled the play a touchdown but overturned the decision on review. MN settled for a field objective and lost 28-24.
Minnesota coach Brad Childress openly criticized the game's officiating, drawing a $35,000 good from pro football. League spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted a statement later Thursday, downplaying the implied meaning of the call, suggesting that it's part of a brand new routine as a result of Carl Johnson's expanded communications program, and is likely to take place again close to the finish with the year.
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