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Originally Posted by waltjp
I was surprised to see that they eliminated the 5-yard facemask penalty. All facemask penalties are now 15 yards.
edit to add: Bob, you beat me to it. I was wondering if officials would take it on their own to ignore the minor stuff.
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Apparently the committee felt that the fouls that were normally called "incidental" were so inconsequential that they should not be penalized. They only want the acts that we would judge as personal foul FM's to be flagged.