[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Link to the video in the article, I watched it....HE MISSED IT!!!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

NFL...PING!!

[LasVegasMac]

two loser teams - who the hell cares????

From a life long Ram fan........shush!

[r9etb]

You can't tell anything from the video because of the angle. The ball is kicked from the hashmark, so it looks like it's going sideways ... but it seems to pass to the left of the goal post just before it hits the net, which suggests that it actually passed between the uprights.

Looking at the players' reactions on both teams, they clearly considered it "good." Nobody on the Browns was doing the "no good" dance.

I'll call it good.

[darkangel82]

It appears so. Not that it would’ve done the Browns any good.

[KarlInOhio]

There is only one position in the stadium where you can tell absolutely where it went without any parallax problems and that is standing directly under the upright, where the ref is positioned.

If you see how much time it takes to get from the kick to where the picture is taken and then how much time it takes to get from there to the net, it looks like the picture must have been taken when the ball was already past the crossbar and back of the endzone so it passed inside the upright.

I'm surprised they don't put mini-cameras on top of the uprights for cases like this.

[Proud2BeRight]

At the angle, only the ref right under the upright could see it. Neither camera view was clear.

[altair]

I couldn't tell from watching the video. It looked awfully close. I like the Bengals, so I'm glad they won.

[FredZarguna]

Like the Battle of Stalingrad: it would've been a victory for the good guys either way.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I'm a bengals fan and as I watched it on tv I thought it might be no good. But I noticed as I watch it that none of the fans in the end zone seats were waving their arms to indicate the FG was no good.

Of course you can go on Youtube and notice that the FG that Denver kicked to beat Cleveland in the 1986 AFC Championship Game (aka the drive) looked to be no good on the tv angle and the person who posts that video suggests that it was no good.

[GeronL]

hard to tell

[JRios1968]

Barack 0bama would be declared the NFL’s MVP for that play

[mc6809e]

Who can tell with all the video compression artifacts?

For all we know the video compressor decided that obscuring one of the goal post tips for one frame as the football passed in front just wasn't worth encoding and so just left the tip of goal post in for that frame.

Sounds ridiculous, but that sort of thing can happen with digital video compression. Compressed video doesn't completely tell the truth. It tells the truth to the extent there are bits available to tell the truth. When the bits run out, certain details of the video are ignored or altered.

[Unlikely Hero]

No he didn’t. I thought that at first too, but he made it as another angle showed.

For the record, I am a Bengals fan, so my comment should be considered with that bias

[Sherman Logan]

Unless I’m confused, it isn’t possible to have a tie in American football. If tied at the end of play, it just goes into repeated sudden-death overtime.

[mewzilla]

Which network televised the game, anyone recall?

[Badeye]

(eyes rolling) Bengals won, Brownies lost. Get over it.

[Unlikely Hero]

here’s a vid showing it from 3 angles—it’s indisputable that the 3rd angle shows him making it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcPxAfIT5Bc

Sorry for the poor quality