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Old Wed Aug 29, 2007, 11:18am
The Roamin' Umpire The Roamin' Umpire is offline
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
CANADIAN RULING:

No. Deliberate grounding has two criteria that must be met:
  1. throwing to an area with no eligible team A receiver
  2. apparantly to avoid a loss of yards
That means that the QB spiking the ball is not deliberate grounding! Anyone care to guess why?
The QB himself is eligible?
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