Thread: Fumble or not?
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Old Tue Aug 16, 2005, 06:57am
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Originally posted by gtwbam
If we change the play to a pass play, where-by A2 catches the ball in the air and hits the ground 1st with his elbows at B's 1 yard line; when the ball pops loose and rolls in the end zone. Do you have the same call?
Abosolutely. He doesn't possess the ball until he has firm grasp and control and he first contacts the ground. If he looses the ball simultaneously with touching the ground, it is an incomplete pass.

Grasping the ball while airborne by definition is not possession of the ball.
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