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Imagine. You're an umpire (I'm not fat enough yet, but I'm working on it). Your standing in the EZ looking for the usual blocking penalties. The ball carrier dives into the EZ near you, clearly across the plane before he is down. The nearest wing official is running in, spotting forward progress at the 1-ft line. Are you going to take the ball and spot it outside the GL? You know it's a TD!! My Ump will holler, "He's in, he's in!!", communicating to me to signal a TD. I take a half-step sideways and call it a TD. I consider this the middle ground between "don't signal a TD, ever" and "we're a team". I'm the wing and I didn't see it because there we 5 bodies between me and the ball. My ump did see it and he's gonna help me out b/c WE'RE A TEAM!!!!!!
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