You are entitled to your opinion. It is just contradicted by the evidence and logic. Spotting the football is not a science. Most spots on any given play is off by a foot or so. Why can't you just accept that? The ref was fooled. It was a good move by Ben to scoot the ball over the line. Nothing wrong with that. It was Seattle's fault for letting the Steelers get that close in the first place. You can't fault the ref for making a human judgement.
I accept that refs make spotting errors, but it's not relevant in this case: the ref wasn't fooled, the touchdown had already been scored by the time Ben landed and then reached forward with the ball.
You can't fault the ref for making a human judgment.
Why would I fault him? He got it right.
This is just silly. No one can be seriously arguing that the ref spotted the ball and upheld the spot based upon Ben's way-after-the-play movement of the ball.
Hello? A ref who is fooled by such tomfoolery happening right in front of him would not be in the NFL for very long.
And hello? The video was clear that Ben landed outside of the end zone and then moved the ball forward. An official who could not see that on the video would earn an extra deduction on his 1040 for being blind.
The dispute was where his forward progress stopped. Not where the ball ended up after the play. Ben's optimistic movement of the ball after the play was over was not a factor.
Please.
SD