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Originally Posted by Ed Hickland
Think we are all in agreement that football rules are complicated
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They're complicated in toto, but not every single part of them is complicated. This part is simple.
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and the average fan gets a good deal of their simplistic rule "knowledge" from the talking heads.
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But the talking heads unnecessarily complicate this simple pair of rules (the one determining when a runner is down and the one determining when a ball is in player possession). There's nothing about causation in there, so why do they have to go putting that in?
Robert