[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I am just flabbergasted that how this play can be nothing more or less than an out-of-bounds violation by the player who lasted touched the ball before the ball hit a spectator who is sitting in the first row. Let restate my post of Jan. 23, 2004, 09:17pm:

If all the fan was doing was just sitting in the first row of a gym with little or no room on the sidelines and the fan made no effort to intentionally touch the ball with the foot, you do NOT have fan interference (do not go looking for weird things), you have an out-of-bounds play. The team that last touched the ball before the ball touched the fan caused the ball to go out-of-bounds. This is not a play on situation. A out-of-bounds violation has occured.


Do not try to make something out of nothing.