Vineland High School Fighting Clan and the Eastern High School Vikings faced off in a New Jersey high school football game on Thursday night. Vineland won the game, 20-19, despite one of the craziest things you will ever see an official do. After the ball was spotted short on fourth down, the referee moved both the ball and chain to give Eastern a first down in the fourth quarter. You can see it in this video.

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(The Big Lead)

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Tiger in Co•18 months

And people think Refs don't cheat there it is right in front of you.If you ain't Cheating you Ain't trying

drdrfaulkner19•18 months

Reminds some of us of the Bama-LSU games over the years (Patrick Peterson really didn't intercept that ball?).

Tigerwm23•18 months

The ref holding the yard marker kept looking down as if to say, “what the hell did I just see?”

Spankum•18 months

I have never seen such blatant cheating. There is nothing that justifies that kind of bullshite.

CDawson•18 months

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Yes you have.

DeafVallyBatnR•18 months

That guy is a ballot harvester during election season.

He also looked at the White team sideline and told them it's a first down with some attitude.

kkv75•18 months

You should be down at Dealey Plaza waiting for JFK jr to return.

TigerDom•18 months

It was probably a first down. The refs running the yardsticks were screwed up. If you look at where the ball was placed on first down, the nose of the ball is on the hash mark of the 22 yard line. When the fourth down play ended, the ball was placed on the 12 yard line marker. The guy who called the first down knew the yardsticks were being handled incorrectly and made the call.

ChineseBandit58•18 months

That was my impression before the measurement - I thought the 'mistake' would be in the opposite direction.
I think that the tail points of the chain was moved in the play, and the ref knew where the foreword chain was before the 'measurement' was made.
It appeared to me the handler of the forward chain pole was trying to "stretch" it - Ref did give them another couple of inches to spot it where there forward end of the chain ended up after being "stretched." (stretched meaning dragging the rear end of the chain forward)

Arkapigdiesel•18 months

Tony Soprano gave him an ultimatum.

Mud_Bone•18 months

Yeah, that was A.J.'s team...

BigDawg0420•18 months

I think the story here is that Vineland’s mascot is the Clan.

kywildcatfanone•18 months

Obvious cheating is obvious

Sput•18 months

The REC will have this dude in Birmingham for an interview before the trip to Baton Rouge

JackieTreehorn•18 months

REC is too busy framing Paul Pelosi and shipping funds to Russia.