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Originally Posted by kdf5
A loose ball and a loose ball play have distinct and different definitions.
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You know, even though it is easy for me to understand now, when I first started officiating football I thought since it happened why the ball was loose it was a loose ball play.
Even today when we have newer people calling in our crews I tell them I never what to her that it happened during a loose ball. I want to hear it happened during a fumble, pass,or kick. You are always going to have time to talk about the play since there is nearly always a penalty going to be enforced. That is just my way of getting away from calling all fumbles 'loose balls".