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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Does "distance penalties" mean the distance portion of a penalty enforcement, as I think they meant? Then the illegal forward pass from the end zone would still result in a safety, because 0 distance from the spot still leaves the spot behind their goal line.
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As Jason mentioned, it's a distance penalty. Just because it's possible to decline a distance portion of a foul doesn't mean it's not a distance penalty.
I'm part of a very good rules group that meets all summer and I remember covering this exact scenario with them this past summer. It was sorta laughed off as a one-in-a-million scenario, but now that we've seen it happen...