I find this interesting and disturbing. It doesn’t say outside of the headline that the NFL made the declaration that it hit a wire, and even say:
We have some finality to Will Reichard’s mysterious field goal miss last week that appeared to hit a camera wire… kind of.
What does “kind of” mean? That it “kind of” looked like it hit a wire (which I agree with) or the NFL determined that it did “kind of” hit it?
If after further review they determine that it hit a wire, they have to fix that. There should never, ever be an obstacle in the path of a football on its way to the goalposts unless it’s a defender’s glove. This is serious. If those wires are in any way able to deflect a ball they have to go. It makes the NFL look like bumbling amateurs otherwise.
I suspect the Skycam in Hotspur Stadium was temporary (Premier League has its own proprietary camera systems), and I wonder if they just screwed up its implementation. Presumably the NFL was there helping them, though?