And the smoke from the show's pyrotechnics was still hanging around when Pittsburgh running back Willie Parker got the ball on his team's 25 yard line.
Andrew Drury gave Boro the lead at Wembley with a sweet 20-yard strike before team mate David Bridges was sent off for a challenge with Andy Bond.
When a team goes inside the 20-yard line, fans see the crucial plays live.
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The tactic almost paid off but both Danny Guthrie and Enrique's fizzed balls across the six-yard area eluded their team-mates.
Previously, if a coach made an illegal challenge because he had no timeouts or the play would have been automatically reviewed by the replay booth his team would receive a 15-yard penalty and there would be no review.
The Scotland Yard report, by a team assisting Pakistani investigators examining the slaying, acknowledged "speculation that two individuals were directly involved in the attack, " with one firing a gun and another detonating a bomb.
The Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said to me that he would rather be the last man left in Scotland Yard with all his management team out on the streets before he asked for the army.
Motherwell pushed forward and Sutton's 20-yard drive deflected agonisingly wide off team-mate Stephen Hughes.
"If everyone wants to be the first person down to the 35-yard line, think how good that team would be, " tight end and occasional special-teamer Travis Beckum said.
Stephen Kelly needed to clear off the line after Taylor failed to gain distance on his punch, while Tuncay headed straight at the keeper when a yard either side would have given his team an equaliser.
He said it was being carried out by Scotland Yard and being led by its serious case team, which looks at complex and historical cases.
"You could conceivably mush a dog team 150 miles to the Pacific Ocean from our front yard and not see another soul on the entire trip!"
Moments later, Town's veteran midfielder Jimmy Bullard hit a shot which flew narrowly wide from 30 yards before team-mate Carlos Edwards hit a fierce 35-yard effort which went over the crossbar.
By the fourth quarter, when the 49ers roared back from a 17-0 deficit to take its first lead of the game on Frank Gore's 9-yard run, it felt like the right team would be heading to the Superdome.
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The federal agency began its probe -- which it dubbed "Operation Red Zone" in reference to the area between the 20-yard line and goal line for a football team's offense -- on September 1, 2012, and wrapped it up on February 6.
Southwark Crown Court heard that one of her team was asked to carry out financial investigations as part of a Scotland Yard inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Varec.
The BBC understands that the Lawrence team are meeting next week to assess where the case now stands - and what the Yard as a whole can learn from this remarkable cold case turnaround.
Rhys Williams fired a 30-yard drive wide for the home side, but that was as close as either team came early on.
The Brazilians were lethargic, with their best moments coming down the flanks as Maicon on the right and Michel Bastos - who had a 20-yard sizzler deflected over - got forward time and time again to support their struggling team-mates.
The striker, on loan from West Ham, wheeled away in celebration after guiding the ball past Dean Gerken, but he and his team-mates were left bewildered when Shoebridge consulted his officials and pointed to the six-yard box rather than the centre circle.
The arrest came about just five days after control of the investigation switched to Scotland Yard's Homicide and Serious Crime Command unit from the local "Sapphire" policing team, which specialises in sexual assault and rape investigations.
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