Thread: Ariz/GB fumble
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Old Mon Jan 11, 2010, 10:59am
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Originally Posted by richmsn View Post
it's a 5-yard face mask. There's no such animal in the nfl anymore.

That said, the r would have a hard time seeing that -- he's bagging the fumble and watching the ball being retrieved -- so if there was a turn of the mask it would be a stretch to assume it would've been gotten by green, although the u may have had a flag there.

i'm glad the ball was picked in the air, otherwise it might've been a replay of the tuck rule.
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