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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (17553)	1/7/2003 10:57:34 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 45644

As the play occurred I turned to my father in law and said "interference" and then when I saw one official signal for a lineman downfield, I said "offsetting penalties"....because the interference was obvious and there were also two fat linemen downfield about 20 yards (one of whom turned out to be an eligible receiver). Then the announcers said, at least once, that there can't be offsetting penalties when there is an illegal lineman downfield (or something like that), and when the lineman is downfield the play is over. I had never heard that before, but I'm sure I heard the announcers say it (did anybody else hear them say that?). Turns out it's not true, and apparently the officials on the field didn't flag the interference at all. The league's "admission" is that the officials should have flagged the interference (which was pretty obvious) but didn't, I guess. The 49ers' claim that they had an interception two plays before that is just wrong. There were three officials who saw that play. One initially called it an interception, but the other two were at angles where they could clearly see that the defender who almost caught the ball did not have possession as the ball hit the ground (and then was swatted away by the Giants' receiver). The two officials who saw it ran in immediately to wave off the pass as incomplete, and the replay (which was never even reviewed) made it obvious that the right call had been made.