The teams can't ask for a review, but all scoring plays are supposed to be automatically reviewed. Situations like this one are precisely what instant replay was intended to protect against.
Epic. Fail.
NFL has announced that dual possession isn't reviewable in the field of play but
is reviewable in the endzone. the NFL response this morning is not from replacement referees and confirms the call.
I think that this season's feeling many have needs to be put in perspective. There have been blown calls since sports began having referees. I just looked at the 1975 playoff 'hail mary' play between Dallas and Minnesota -- my memory of it has always been that it was a missed offensive pass interference call; now I'm not so sure; if we'd had 12 camera angles, HD and slow-motion, who knows what we'd see. In last night's game all of the earlier PI calls -- and non-calls -- 'hands to the face', roughing the passer, etc. are judgement calls. if they'd gone the other way, would there be any less outcry? a change in any of those calls would have made a final hail mary play moot. I'm also convinced that if it had been Cleveland, say, and not on MNF, it'd be less of a cut-and-dry story.
Tennis, hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball -- none of these sports have the need to be objectively accurate regarding calls 100% of the time. Maybe they recognize themselves as sports/games first. I heard $350 million was lost last night "on that one call" -- too bad!
too many fans think that the "real officials" would make for a better game (true, it would be faster); that football can be objectively accurate; that these missed calls rarely happened in the past. To this, I say 'ha!' This season so far is the most interesting in the NFL for years and years.
Edit: if anyone has some free time and cares to, take a look at youtube's "NFL Top Ten Controversial Calls" they go back to the '70s and none involve replacement refs; although last night's game -- or another from this season -- may change that.