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When I started football officiating in 1975 the statement "nearly at rest " was in the rulebook. Now the words are gone but the principle stills remains in that the covering official must judge if a old force has been spent and a new force was added. Some comments about this is that i have heard are, if the ball was moving to slowly to reach the endzone( in the judgment of the covering official) then a muff that accelerates the ball into the endzone is a new force. Without question "new/original force" judgments are difficult. Most force situations that come up in a game are not the difficult variety....But be ready when the tough one comes up, be firm and sell your call!!!!
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