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Originally Posted by huet38
No. Rule is the review can't help the challenging team, not that a challenge nullifies all reviews
Ok, so if Houston threw the flag, they would get a 15 yard penalty, but it would still be reviewed.
Here are the rules from nfl.com rulebook
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In each game, a team will be permitted two challenges that will initiate Instant Replay reviews, except
for plays when the on-field ruling is a score for either team
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A team may challenge an on-field ruling up until the next legal snap or kick. If there is a foul that delays
the next snap, the team committing that foul will no longer be able to challenge the previous ruling.
It's weird though, based on that ruling, it seems that Houston could have still asked for the play to be reviewed.
Actually, reading this now, if the Lions committed a penalty, then the LIONS couldn't initiate a review anymore. But so what, they couldn't initiate a review anyway since it was a scoring play.
Base on reading this, throwing the flag should be a penalty, but not a loss of a challenge from the replay booth.
Also based on this, if Houston throws the flag, it would make the play unreviewable. It doesn't state in the rulebook anywhere in that section that if your team would be helped by a review then it becomes a non review by throwing the flag and getting a penalty. It just says that your team can't INITIATE a review. But the Lions wouldn't try to start a review, it would come from up top.
Let's say the play was super super close and would take a few viewings to call one way or the other. If Houston's staff got a look at it and decided it would be overturned, they should throw the flag. By throwing a flag, this happens.
Houston gets a penalty for Unsportsmanlike conduct.
Since there was a penalty delaying the next play, Houston is no longer able to challenge.
Therefore, no challege
Therefore, touchdown.
Based on the actual verbiage in the rulebook, the Lions can't challenge after getting the penalty, but I don't see anywhere in the rulebook that says once you get that penalty that the play is not able to be reviewed.
No where in the rule book does it say:
"the team that would be helped by the review, if they throw a flag, its now not reviewable. but if the team that would be helped by no review, if they throw the flag, the review would still take place."
if that's the actual rule, that is ****ing ******ed.
http://static.nfl.com/static/content...and_Duties.pdf