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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 4917348, member: 581"]
Okay, based on what Rex Ryan just said...in case it's of interest.

You don't really have to get closer apparently. They usually just waive their hands in front of their jersey number and the ref acknowledges by pointing back  That's sort of a general norm?  Maybe.  That's what I got out of it.

He also said the ref was likely so used to 70 reporting in, as he would have done so multiple times throughout the game, that he just called it that way on auto-pilot.  70 checking in eligible all game is part of the set-up for THIS specific play late in a game.

The Lion's coach would have have gone over the play with the ALL the officials pre-games so they know it's coming and how it works.  70 was a decoy for the defense to maybe confuse it a bit more, but they would have known that too.

68 has done this play a lot - as has 70, and 68 has multiple touchdowns in his career off of it, so there is a zero percent chance that they didn't know exactly how to execute it correctly - and officials have gotten it right every other time.
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