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The ball is the indicator at the goal line, not which part of his feet are across the line.
When his hands closed on the ball, his feet were both astraddle of the goal line, but it was impossible to tell conclusively from the broadcast view whether the ball had penetrated the plane of the goal line. but at least one of the officials could see it, and had started to raise his arms, but stopped.
Had he just allowed himself to fall back to the ground at that point, he would have in all likelihood have been in with the touchback, but he instead fought his way forward.
I was baffled at that moment.
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Maybe. Check out the pic here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3253314/posts?page=81#81
Ignoring the shark obviously. Now we see his back there so you don’t know if he’s caught the ball, but if it is that ball is pretty clearly in the field not the end zone. There’s a few other pic and replays around that make look like an either or. And remember turnovers are automatically reviewed.
I’m still with him on it. When in doubt don’t give the refs a chance to mess with you. And really he was right there, maybe he knew he really was on the wrong side of the line at the catch.