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Originally Posted by Whitlock
Porter probably won’t address the first-quarter touchdown that Sunday’s referees stole from the Seahawks. Hasselbeck avoided pressure and hit Darrell Jackson in the back of the end zone with a beautiful strike. The Pittsburgh cornerback immediately turned to back judge Bob Waggoner and begged for an offensive pass-interference call. After a couple of seconds of thought, Waggoner granted the Pittsburgh request and erased Seattle’s hard-earned touchdown.
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It's pretty clear that the NFL needs to either genetically engineer 3-armed officials or change the touchdown hand signal to a one-armed gesture.
It sure looked to Bob Dole like the hesitation was due to the inability to simultaneously throw a yellow flag and signal for a TD.