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Notice how the Tuck Rule was reviewed by the NFL Committee afterwards and not revised. Notice how it has been set as precedence ever since and has been called for teams playing the Patriots since that game, several times in fact (I'd know, I was watching the games and had to remind people how the tuck rule saved us in 2001).
Notice how the people calling the games are human. They are no better than you or I. I bet you would have had trouble making that call if you were there. 3 of the Ref's right off the bat said they didn't see the play because they were focused elsewhere.
And I quote "In 2004 John Fetkovich, an emeritus professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University, analyzed the NFL Films clip of the play. He came to the conclusion, based on the trajectory of the bounced ball and conservation of momentum, that the ball must have bounced off of Tatum, who was running upfield at the time, rather than Fuqua, who was running across and down the field. Fetkovich also performed experiments by throwing a football against a brick wall at a velocity greater than 60 feet per second, twice the speed that Fetkovich calculated that Bradshaw's pass was traveling when it reached Tatum and Fuqua. Fetkovitch achieved a maximum rebound of 10 feet when the ball hit point first, and 15 feet when the ball hit belly first, both less than the 24 feet that the ball actually rebounded during the play. Timothy Gay, a physics professor and a longtime fan of the Raiders, cited Fetkovich's work with approval in his book The Physics of Football, and concluded that "the referees made the right call in the Immaculate Reception."
I'm pretty sure that if you looked with an unbiased eye, you'd find plenty of bogus-calls made in favor of the Raiders.
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