Attorney Files Lawsuit to Have Ending of Rams/Saints Replayed
A New Orleans-based attorney has filed a lawsuit seeking to make NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell step in and force a replay of the end of the NFC Championship game between the Saints and Los Angeles Rams.
Lawyer Frank D’Amico filed a civil suit in New Orleans on behalf of Saints season-ticket holders which could theoretically make Goodell invoke NFL Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 and compel both teams to return to New Orleans to replay the end of the game.
The rule allows the commissioner to take extreme action in the face of an unfair result. In this case, the unfair result would be the non-call on a clear pass interference by Rams corner Nickell Robey-Coleman on Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis on a third-and-10 play with 1:49 left in the game.
“The commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club actions, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game,” according to the rule.
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