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Old Thu Jan 01, 2009, 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie View Post
I saw the sketchy replay on espn.com. All it looked like was that the returner muffed the punt and it went into the end zone and the punt team recovered. Is that correct? If so, TD. I don't understand how that could be controversial. P can't ADVANCE the ball, but they can recover it and its dead where they recover.

What is the fed rule that makes this different?
NFHS:
The status of the ball after the muff is still a kick and once it breaks the plane of the GL it is dead and a touchback.
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