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Old Sun Sep 17, 2006, 09:12am
irefky irefky is offline
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Originally Posted by JohnAlt
3rd and what? If 3rd and goal, how is this different than the actual example where they moved the chains back? Does that only happen after a dead ball foul following a 1st down?
3rd and goal

It's different because they had the ball already was 2nd and goal from the 3, no first down was going to be made to move the chains. If you made the line to gain on this example, you have a score.

So, the dead ball penalty, 15 yards is tacked on from the 3, and now be 3rd down.
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