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January 07, 2003 - 11:04 pm

Lawmaker wants NFL to make restitution for botched call in Giants game

By Associated Press, 1/7/2003 20:01

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) A New Jersey lawmaker wants the National Football League to make restitution for a botched call made during the New York Giants' playoff game on Sunday.

Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, D-Hudson, wants the league to allow New Jersey to host a Super Bowl by 2006 and called on the head of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, to begin legal action against the NFL.

''New Jersey taxpayers may have been cheated of tax revenue the state would have earned from players' income and other Giants-related enterprises had the team advanced in the playoffs,'' Impreveduto said in his letter to George Zoffinger, the sports authority president.

Zoffinger said Monday night he received the letter, but could not comment on it until he speaks with Impreveduto.

On Monday, the NFL's director of officiating apologized to the Giants, acknowledging that the team was denied the chance to kick a potential game-winning field goal because the officials failed to call pass interference penalty on the final play of their game against the San Francisco 49ers.

But Impreveduto's demand may be difficult to meet since Detroit has already been guaranteed the 2006 game and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has said the 2007 game will be played at a warm-weather site.

NFL rules stipulate that the Super Bowl must be played in a domed stadium or a city where the average January high temperature is at least 50 degrees.

But Tagliabue has said the league is considering having a Super Bowl at the Meadowlands site in New Jersey, or at FedEx Field in Maryland, as a way of helping New York or Washington recover from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.