Thread: Touchback?
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Old Sat Nov 01, 2008, 09:07am
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
I'm not qualified to judge your mental health, but you're mistaken about this case. If the ball didn't cross the goal line, then it's not a touchback.

In HS the position of the player is irrelevant. That might be an NFL rule.
I tried to find validation in the rule and case books last night, but I was struggling to do so. The case book refers to a play where K jumps and secures it at the 1 but lands in the end zone -- it calls that a touchback -- but that's a different situation as the ball's not legally secured until the player lands.

You're probably right that I've let what I see in the NFL color my outlook on the play.
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