After Amelia Earhart’s airplane and Jimmy Hoffa’s body, scholars will be searching long and hard for any evidence that leads to an actual pass interference penalty on the Patriots’ seventh offensive play Sunday.

The play where DeMario Douglas zig-zagged through a sad-sack Saints secondary for a touchdown, then returned to the sideline and got yanked back with the rest of the offense.

No touchdown. No completion. Back it up, everybody. Try again.

“It was a really late call. I think we were on the sideline,” Drake Maye said post-game. “I was about to sit down.”

Countless fraught flags followed in New Orleans, as if referee Adrian Hill and his crew had stumbled all night on Bourbon Street and shown up moments before kickoff. Were it not for a late Maye completion, a fourth-quarter takeawa

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