Sixteen years later, Mike Pereira remembers where he was (hotel room in St. Louis), what he was drinking (bottle of wine), what he was wearing (jogging suit), when a young New England quarterback named Tom Brady introduced himself as the next best thing.
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But that one darn sequence, that crazy tuck play. Pereira, only months into his job as the league’s director of officiating, needed this now?
“This play happens and I go, ‘It’s a fumble, game over,’ ” recalled the Carmichael resident. “The first replay showed, ‘Oh, my God. That’s the Tuck Rule. They are going to reverse this call.