{"id":248162,"date":"2025-10-24T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248162\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:46:09","slug":"nfl-is-sensitive-about-will-reichard-field-goal-that-apparently-hit-wire-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248162\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL is sensitive about Will Reichard field goal that apparently hit wire in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the first half of Thursday night\u2019s Vikings-Chargers game, Prime Video\u2019s Al Michaels said the Minnesota kicker Will Reichard\u2019s only missed field goal of the season happened when the ball struck a camera wire during a win over the Browns in London.<\/p>\n<p>When Reichard lined up in the second half to attempt a field goal, Michaels offered a clarification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe league wants to take my lunch away because I said before that Reichard\u2019s only miss was hitting a wire in London,\u201d Michaels said. \u201cThey league says, \u2018No, no. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PardonMyTake\/status\/1981552838938382404\/video\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It was an optical illusion<\/a>.\u2019 Not what Reichard thinks. Anyway, there you have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the unofficial position was that there was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-didnt-have-clear-view-of-vikings-field-goal-striking-camera-cable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no clear view<\/a> of the ball striking the cable, not that it was an \u201coptical illusion.\u201d If that was\/is the position, it should have been articulated affirmatively and clearly \u2014 not in reaction to Al Michaels pointing it out, nearly three weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency is the key. If Michaels hadn\u2019t said what he said, the league never would have said anything more about it.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the ball hit the wire or didn\u2019t hit the wire, the NFL needs to be ready, willing, and able to get its version of the truth out there quickly. And not in the form of a knee-jerk reaction when someone dares to mention it well after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the first half of Thursday night\u2019s Vikings-Chargers game, Prime Video\u2019s Al Michaels said the Minnesota kicker Will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-248162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}