On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:54:06 -0800, chuckgould.chuck wrote:


Michael Wilbon, Washington Post, wrote:

Ben Roethlisberger's third-down dive into the end zone simply was not a
touchdown. Because less than two minutes remained, the call was reviewed
in the booth. And everybody in the stadium plus everybody at home culd
see, clear and conclusively, that Big Ben didn't get the ball across the
goal line. It wasn't a touchdown, plain and simple. Yet the call stood and
the Steelers had a touchdown.

Uh, someone should tell this guy, it isn't getting "the ball across the
goal line". It's breaking "the plane" of the goal line. The difference
is close to two feet (the width of the painted line, plus the length of
the ball). FWIW, it looked like a touchdown to me.