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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
Here's why I don't like the rule.
Generally, the idea behind awarding a safety to a team who is fouled in the endzone is that the fouler possibly prevented the fouled team from getting a safety. When the ball is in the EZ and will be a touchback, that possibility does not exist. Fouls like this should be enforced from the 20.
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But the problem is that we just don't know what
might have happened
without the foul. Maybe the offended A player hits the ball carrier causing a fumble which A recovers for a TD.
As others have said, don't foul in your own EZ and we don't have this problem.