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How is Mike's analysis flawed? I don't see where he says anything like "The ball is part of the hand". He says, "The ball is not dead unless a player in possession of the ball touches the ground with any part of his person other than hand or foot (unless I've gotten some rules cross-over here from another code)." The ball is not part of the hand or part of the receiver or runner. The ball is the ball.
Insatty does mention that Jason's interpretation makes the ball part of the hand, but that's simply not true either. The ball is the ball is the ball, nothing more.
In the case described, the PLAYER does not touch the ground with any part of his person other than his feet. Therefore, he is not down, and the ball is not dead.
There's no contradiction here, and the play is actually rather simple if you just read the rule and don't try to read anything into it.
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