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If you're a gambling man, you're probably asking yourself that a lot lately.
Just so you know, the Steelers and the Chargers were engaged in a weird finish in Week 11 of the 2008-09 NFL football season last Sunday. The 11-10 final score was the first game EVER in the history of the NFL to have a game end like the way it did. And although 11-10 sure was a strange final result in football, that's not the thing that got sports gamblers concerned.
The Pittsburgh Steelers were coming into this game as -5 favorites to win over the visiting San Diego Chargers. And while the 11-10 final score means Pittsburgh won the game despite failing to cover the -5 spread, it turns out that the Steelers DID COVER if it wasn't for the referees making yet another huge officiating error right then and there at Heinz Field.
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On the final play of Pittsburgh's 11-10 win over the San Diego Chargers, the league admitted that the officials made a mistake after taking away the touchdown scored by Steelers safety Troy Polamalu when he returned a fumble towards the Chargers' endzone.
The Chargers, down 11-10 with 11 seconds remaining, had this one last desperation attempt to win the game when they started the play from their own 21-yard line. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers completed a short pass to LaDainian Tomlinson over the middle before Tomlinson tossed the ball backward to Chris Chambers.
When Chambers tried to make another backward lateral pass to another teammate...
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