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Here's a rule reference that may help us out here:
Rule 5-1-3-f:
"ART 3. When a scrimmage down ends with the ball in the field of play or out of bounds between the goal lines, a new series is awarded to:
f. The team in possession at the end of the down, if R is the first to touch a scrimmage kick while it is beyond the expanded neutral zone..."
Obviously this rule specifically intended to exclude when the ball is down IN the end zone. It appears the fundamental statement was taken from this rule, but they were sloppy by not writing it to exclude the end zone in the statement.
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