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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Chuck, earlier you wrote this:
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Again, I'm assuming that the horn sounded very quickly. Rebound, turn, pass, horn. If the play gets to the point where Team B scores, then we clearly have to apply 2-10.
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Why is whether or not B scores relevant?
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Team B scoring (or the play continuing for a long period of time after the official's mistake) makes it implausible to say that the ball never became live after the miss.
The interpretation (in the book) is basically this: Even tho the ball should NOT have been allowed to be live, since everybody played for a while and somebody scored, obviously everybody
thought that the ball was live. So it was live. The only reason the ball is live is that everybody thought it should be.
My point is if we are quick enough to alert everybody that the ball isn't live, and we don't allow people to play as though it
were live, then we can reasonably say that the ball never
was live. If it never was live, then we just pick up where we left off, which
obviously (in my very humble opinion) is the right thing to do.