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The Giants did not deserve to win that game, but to have such bad officiating on a game-ending play is unbelievable.

The Giants played a game against the Dallas Cowboys back in the late 1980s, and the Giants were awarded a safety on the opening kickoff when the Dallas kick returner muffed the kick in the end zone and was tackled while trying to run it out.

The NFL issues a statement after the game describing the call as a blatantly incorrect one, and the entire off-field officiating crew was fired the next day.

The Giants did not deserve to win that game, but to have such bad officiating on a game-ending play is unbelievable.

True enough.....just burns my ass that my beloved boys in blue do everything in their power to lose a game and the zebra crew feels it necessary to add to the debacle.

WORST LOSS EVER :-(

I was at that Giants/Cowboys game you mentioned. That safety was the difference in a 12-10 loss by the Cowboys. I still can't believe that it held up. Even though the returner muffed the k o, he still didn't cross the goal line and head upfield. Should have been a touchback and Dallas ball at the 20. As for the the statement part, Dallas got two of those in the mail after SB 13. Benny Barnes was flagged for defensive pass interference against Lynn Swann. There were three officials near the play and called it correctly as offensive pass interfernece beacause Swann ran up Barnes' back to try and catch the ball. Fred "Eagle-Eye" Swearingen, who was 30 to 40 yards away from the play made the bogus call. He was working his final ever NFL game and he got the three aformentioned zebras to "see" it his way. The rest is history. The next week in the league offices, it was seen to be offensive interference so they shot off a letter of apology to the Dallas Cowboys and one to Barnes saying sorry for the error. Thing is, letters of apology don't look near as nice as a Super Bowl championship ring. The fans learn something new all the time about the finer parts of the rule book, don't we.