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Some people have a difficult time understanding loss of down with loss of yardage coupled together.
I had a argument when I was a cadet over this with another official on the field. I had an illegal forward pass thrown into the stands about 8 yards behind the LOS.
He argued...."Joe, you got 'em for 3 things. You gave them 5 yards , you gave them loss of down, and you enforced the foul from where he passed the ball so they lost even more yards."
I simply said "correct, correct, and correct. And, you're still wrong!"
Then he got into loose-ball play vs. running play. Ugh, running. His reply "uh, loose ball" And it went back and forth.
He was livid (and never made it to the varsity level). I stuck with my guns and we enforced the way I mentioned.
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