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Originally Posted by Insane Blue
Longhorn please go back to your rule book and read it.
Interference: The act of any offensive player or team member, umpire or spectator that IMPEDES, HINDERS OR CONFUSES a defensive player attempting to execute a play
I may be new on this forum but I am far from being a rookie.
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Didn't call you a rookie or make any such assumption. You've just posted, however, exactly why your initial post was not appropriate. Consider some newbie on here who reads your post and then takes it as gospel. Then rules interference in a case where such a play confused a defender... with no other action going on.
Confusion is not the threshold for interference. And neither is your 2nd post - getting them to make a play on the scored runner. Closer, but still not interference.
The key, as I've said a couple of times now, is that they must impede, hinder or confuse a defensive player
ATTEMPTING TO EXECUTE A PLAY.
Remember that we're talking about a runner who scored, going all the way to the dugout, and then coming all the way back out... 99.9% of the time, nothing is going on any more this late in the play.