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Old Tue Dec 05, 2006, 02:39pm
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Originally Posted by kentref
To get a safety call here the player intercepting the ball would need to bring the ball out of the end zone into the field of play and then go back into the end zone (i.e., he would be the one forcing the ball into the end zone) and then ... go OOB in the back of the end zone. The way you described the play the QB with his forward pass put the ball in the end zone and MJT's analysis is correct.
One thing that could cause this to be a safety in NCAA or FED would be a penalty in the EZ while all this running around is going on. Not positive if this is also true in NFL.
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