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Originally Posted by TXMike
If the ball had bonked an opponent or an official on the head when it came down, would you concur with flagging that?
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I didn't mean physical harm by "harm." Harm to the game. Harm to the proceedings.
A football weighs, what, 16 ounces? The players have helmets on. And if you've not been bonked by a football in the head area as an official, you've been extremely lucky.
I don't care how high you throw it spontaneously or what it does when it comes down. IMHO and IMHO only, it wasn't an attempt to showboat nor was it an attempt to delay the game or do anything that, in my mind, "harms" the game.
That said,
yes, it's a rule. I get that. I'm questioning the need for the rule, which is different from questioning the call.