The final play

basically the same as a hand off. Any offensive player is allowed to take a hand off or lateral.

but it also looked to me like the ball was fumbled forward and advanced by a Bears' player other than the one who fumbled it. That, if not a penalty, is not allowed.

You can check the NFL rules: RULE 8 FORWARD PASS, BACKWARD PASS, FUMBLE --- SECTION 7 BACKWARD PASS AND FUMBLE

In brief, anyone can catch a backward pass.

I did not see any time when any player was down by contact nor a situation where the play should've been blown dead.

I loved the end when Ward crushed the ball carrier - as if to say "enough already"

The Giants should have fallen on the loose ball instead of trying to pick it up, I think that's what allowed the Bears to keep moving it 'upfield' there, because they didn't advance it, perhaps?

I think it started with 00.02 on the clock, but it felt like it went on for a minute of water torture. A part of me said, oh, no, we're going to blow tackles and let them score.

and then I thought of the Lambuth Special where we didn't make it and prayed the football Gods wouldn't be cruel enough to do this to us after sitting on eggshells the whole game! LOL

I looked at the play by play as listed on Yahoo Sports app on my phone. The Yahoo app does make mistakes, but it showed that the Giants took a timeout with 3 seconds left in the game, after Fields was sacked, which should have ended the game.

Did they really take a timeout, if so, why? That crazy last play shouldn't have happened. Or was it some sort of administrative time out by the refs? Did not see this discussed anywhere.

In comment 15844284 j_Booker said:

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I looked at the play by play as listed on Yahoo Sports app on my phone. The Yahoo app does make mistakes, but it showed that the Giants took a timeout with 3 seconds left in the game, after Fields was sacked, which should have ended the game. Did they really take a timeout, if so, why? That crazy last play shouldn't have happened. Or was it some sort of administrative time out by the refs? Did not see this discussed anywhere.

he ran out of bounds on the prior play.....they called a timeout to get set for the final play.

In comment 15844272 GiantBlue said:

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and then I thought of the Lambuth Special where we didn't make it and prayed the football Gods wouldn't be cruel enough to do this to us after sitting on eggshells the whole game! LOL

Me too! At least twice I yelled NO! at the TV. It seemed that the Bears had gotten the ball across the field to a wide open area from the TV at least

In comment 15844257 ColHowPepper said:

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I think it started with 00.02 on the clock, but it felt like it went on for a minute of water torture. A part of me said, oh, no, we're going to blow tackles and let them score.

I think I read last night it was 46 seconds and set a record for longest play in NFL. Previous longest was 44 seconds

I was at the game and it was actually fun to watch because somehow I had faith they were not going to score.
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In comment 15844272 GiantBlue said:

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and then I thought of the Lambuth Special where we didn't make it and prayed the football Gods wouldn't be cruel enough to do this to us after sitting on eggshells the whole game! LOL

I did. I also was laughing hilariously while it was going on Rather surreal and fun that was!

As they are still lateralling the ball down the field, the fireworks at the stadium were shot off, signifying the Giants won, well b4 the play was actually whistled dead. Have to say, there was a lane at one point that if a player with any speed had the ball, he might have scored. They were coming towards our seats in the EZ and it got very quiet until we FINALLY fell on it.

Very surreal

They wouldn't have be able to advance it

I stopped watching the field at that point and headed out. Clearly I should have kept watching, but maybe it was better for my health that I didn't.

if the play had somehow gone for a touchdown, it would have been called back.

In comment 15844309 Blue21 said:

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In comment 15844257 ColHowPepper said: Quote: I think it started with 00.02 on the clock, but it felt like it went on for a minute of water torture. A part of me said, oh, no, we're going to blow tackles and let them score. I think I read last night it was 46 seconds and set a record for longest play in NFL. Previous longest was 44 seconds

I timed it at 44+ seconds.

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It was getting dangerous because the defenders were forced to race back and forth and were starting to breathe heavy.

A fast DB or WR could easily have popped it if he got the ball in the right position

In comment 15844482 Vanzetti said:

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It was getting dangerous because the defenders were forced to race back and forth and were starting to breathe heavy. A fast DB or WR could easily have popped it if he got the ball in the right position

St. Brown had the best shot, he should have just gone for it and tried to break a tackle instead of lateralling.

May have come back anyway as others have said. Refs swallow their whistles and hold on to their flags in that situation unless it's really obvious since replay can overturn any score.

then the bear player fumbles it to another player, and they keep on playing.

I supposed if they had scored it would have been reviewed but man that was crazy.

took at least 46 minutes off my life.

the review process might have been longer than the game.