Luckily for the San Diego Chargers, the missed call will not hurt their chances of victory, but it delayed the inevitable—that the Chargers would get the ball back.
The play in question was an interception by Quentin Jammer. In fact, Jammer made a great player to intercept the pass. At first, the ruling on the field was an interception then fumble, and the Patriots recovered, but the referee overruled the original call, even before a challenge and called the pass incomplete.
Norv Turner challenged the call on the field because if it had been the original ruling on the field, it would have given the Chargers the ball.
- B/R Ticket Guide
So, after the play was reviewed, it went to the second ruling of incomplete pass. He stated that Quentin Jammer had fallen down on his own and never possessed the ball. The problem is that Quentin had complete control of the ball, he didn't go down on his own, he was actually tripped up by Randy Moss; therefore, when Jammer had possession of the ball, he made a move up the field while diving forward with complete control of the ball.
Since Jammer had complete control of the ball, made a football move, and was in essence tackled by Randy Moss, making it so the actual ruling on the field should have been the ground can't cause fumble it was an interception by Quentin Jammer, first down and 10 for San Diego.
Al Michaels, who was looking at the play, concluded that it was the correct call. But it was clear on the replay that Jammer was diving forward with the ball and had enough control of the ball at the time to be an interception, and the only thing Michaels missed is that it was Moss who tripped Jammer up. Jammer didn't fall on his own.
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