Sunday night's ending to the Pittsburgh Steelers' loss to the Los Angeles Chargers featured one of the weirder finishes to an NFL game - a field goal that was eventually completed after the Steelers went offsides three times in a row.
Maybe you didn't think about it at the time, but you will now: What if Pittsburgh kept committing penalties to force kicker Michael Badgley to miss over and over?
In a video starring FOX Sports' officiating experts Dean Blandino and Mike Pereira, there's an answer with an obscure rule: officials can call a penalty for "continually fouling" to stop a team from scoring:
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</twitter-widget>As Pereira pointed out, it's got to be "intentional" in order for a zebra to award a team a score, and that comes after a warning from officials. Blandino said he would have considered it after the second or third offsides, which absolutely would have blown up social media and created debate for days.
Maybe you didn't think about it at the time, but you will now: What if Pittsburgh kept committing penalties to force kicker Michael Badgley to miss over and over?
In a video starring FOX Sports' officiating experts Dean Blandino and Mike Pereira, there's an answer with an obscure rule: officials can call a penalty for "continually fouling" to stop a team from scoring:
Click Photo to see Video ............
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Last night, the Steelers jumped offside not 1, not 2, but 3 times while trying to block a Chargers field goal. @MikePereira and @DeanBlandino discuss how the Chargers could have been automatically awarded points due to the consecutive penalties.
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Last night, the Steelers jumped offside not 1, not 2, but 3 times while trying to block a Chargers field goal. @MikePereira and @DeanBlandino discuss how the Chargers could have been automatically awarded points due to the consecutive penalties.
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</twitter-widget>As Pereira pointed out, it's got to be "intentional" in order for a zebra to award a team a score, and that comes after a warning from officials. Blandino said he would have considered it after the second or third offsides, which absolutely would have blown up social media and created debate for days.