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Message: [QUOTE="mantonio, post: 25024, member: 709"] I saw both camera views of the kick, & there is no way the officials could have overturned the call. I recorded the game, & did an indepth freeze frame analysis of both camera views. In the straight on view, the ball appears to eclipse the post, making it seem like the ball was outside the goal. However, when I examined the off-set side view, the ball CLEARLY sails to the inside of the post, meaning the kick appeared good... My theory is, the video cameras are not operating at a fast enough speed to accurately capture the position of the ball juxtaposed against the goal post, whether in front or behind it. The ball was traveling at an unusually high rate of speed, & even freezeframed, it doesn't appear as a fully formed football, but a small streak or smudge, because, again, the camera doesn't have the proper shutter speed to see it, or the thin goal post clearly against the deep & complex background of a thousand moving people. In addition, the post is a thin image in the eye of the camera, & when something small passes near it at a high rate of speed, the camera cannot process what it is seeing quickly enough to output the actual live imagery, so what you might see is a BLENDING of the two images at the point of intersection, & the darker image of the ball somehow shows up slightly more dominantly to the eye of the viewer at that ball speed & angle, like a phantom image. This happens quite a bit in photography where images are not what they seem to be. Also, depth can play a deceptive role in this camera conundrum. Camera's can be tricked when there is great depth in it's view. It's possible the camera lost focus in the vast background of the crowd, or that ALLSTATE net, with it's intricate weaving, confused the video camera. Maybe this happened at the front view, but not the off-set view for some scientific, optically complicated reason, due to certain changes in angle. Whatever the case, the officials directly under the goal posts must have seen the ball pass on the inside, rather than outside, because our human eyes are better at deciphering imagery at a closer distance than those cameras were, AND they called it GOOD... [/QUOTE]

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