The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Cleveland Browns in London on Sunday, 21-17, because of a formidable 80-yard game-winning landing drive orchestrated by Carson Wentz. Nevertheless, there was a missed name on this sport that made life more durable on the Vikings.
Within the fourth quarter, the Vikings trotted out Will Reichard to try a 51-yard subject objective that may have tied the sport at 17 apiece. The kick was extensive proper, and appeared prefer it had some funky motion on it. That is as a result of the ball appeared to hit a digicam wire.
It went unnoticed on the time, however try movies of the kick, right here:
If this was seen by the officers, Reichard would have been given one other probability to kick. This is the language from the NFL rulebook, per Mike Florio of Professional Soccer Speak:
“[I]f a free ball in play strikes a video board, information wire, sky cam, or another object, the ball shall be lifeless instantly, and the down shall be replayed on the earlier spot. Within the occasion the down is replayed, the sport clock shall be reset to the time remaining when the snap occurred … All penalties shall be disregarded, besides for private fouls or unsportsmanlike conduct fouls, which shall be administered previous to the replaying of the down.”
Florio later reported that the NFL did not have a transparent view displaying the ball hitting the wire.
Since Wentz was in a position to come by means of clutch by way of a 12-yard landing cross to Jordan Addison with 25 seconds remaining within the fourth quarter, this officiating mistake didn’t play a task within the final result. However it may have resulted in one of many extra controversial outcomes of the season.
