Vicious Wrote:You're using an example that would never ever ever happen in a million years in the NFL. If you want to be more realistic, you can look at when a ref blows a call leading to a score that makes a team lose a game. Once the game is final, it's final. The NFL admits it was a bad call and they screwed up, but they never change the results of the game.Again, you are using a flowed analogy. Your example is a judgement error by ref. What happened in gymnastic was different in nature. It was a technical error. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a big controversy in the first place. I'll give another analogy that actually happened. A few years ago, during a women's volleyball game, a team won a crucial rally. However, somehow, a point was awarded to the other team's score by a mistake. That team went on to win the game. The protest was filed after the game, and the whole game got invalidated as a result.
This is a quote from Olympic correspondent and news reporter Ray Ratto, who used a similar analogy about the gymnastic controversy:
"this is the equivalent of your team losing the World Series because the umpires forgot how many runs a home run is worth, and then having the commissioner's office say, "Yes, it's worth one, but we're still going to make it a half because we don't want to fuss with all the paperwork"