Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kickafieldgoal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score.
Manning, seeing what was happening, thought for a moment that the Giants should decline the invitation to score, run another play to wind down the clock, and then kickafieldgoal.
Perhaps most famously, heavy snowfall in New England led to the controversial 1982 Snow Plow Game, in which Patriots kicker John Smith hit a game-winning fieldgoal only after a snowplow had cleared a spot for him to kick from.