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A batted ball and a judgement call decide fortunes in Lions-Seahawks game

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by Ben Austro - October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 296516

Week 4: Lions at Seahawks (video)So it is a Monday night, an early season game at Seattle's CenturyLink field. Lions driving for the north end zone. And that's when the Ghost of the Fail Mary had reared itself.Calvin Johnson -- not a stranger to the quirks of the rules --

Fail Mary was a failure beyond the field

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by Ben Austro - September 4, 2014January 17, 2015 25014

Commentary by Ben Austro The play was one in a million. You could work the triple shifts in peewee right up through three decades in the NFL and still not see a simultaneous catch call like this (video). The Packers-Seahawks meeting in 2012 was the end of the seventh full week of

NFL breaks 12-hour silence on Fail Mary

by Ben Austro - September 25, 2012September 25, 2013 06185

League officiating dept., of course, backs up call The NFL had one spectacular failure unfold before a national audience. So, they did what that grouchy curmudgeon on your block does every Halloween: turn off the lights and pretend they aren't home. We asked when a statement was going to be released shortly