[jihadjim]

Oh your so right how could I have been so negligent so let me rephrase it so even you can comprehend.

'I don't think I got in,'" Roethlisberger said, so the guy carrying the ball didn't THINK he got in and the video replay CONFIRMS his thought. There is that better - jeesh you people are so anal. I bet your sock drawer is impeccable.

[Petronski]

...the guy carrying the ball didn't THINK he got in

at the time

...and the video replay CONFIRMS his thought.

No it doesn't.

[toldyou]

Roethlisberger's TD run: A touchdown is when "any part of the ball, legally in possession of a player inbounds, breaks the plane of the opponent's goal line."

[econjack]

I watched the game with a guy who let us Tevo that play about 2 dozen times. As the ABC announcers pointed out, the ball does not need to cross the goal line, only break the plane formed by the line. In other words, if the ball touches the goal line, the play is considered a touchdown. We watched that play dozens of times and, before he is downed and before his body touches the ground, the ball does break the goal line. This happens when the ball is about two feet above the ground as Roethlisberger is falling forward. A few frames later, the ball is an inch or so back from its forward-most point and he is in the process of being downed. While it is true that the ball does not get into the end zone (as far as we could see), his forward progress does clearly cause the ball to break the plane formed by the goal line and is properly called a touchdown.

BTW, I'm from Indianapolis, and I wasn't exactly thrilled when we lost to the Steelers, but the facts are the facts.