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I can see the smart coaches teaching kids to interfere in the endzone. Small yardage and way better than a touchdown.
I don't think anyone thought of this when making the rule change.
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That's why they need study committees who'll look thru archives not only of their own rules committee, but those of other governing bodies. Once in a while they actually do convene such committees, but not often enough. Not enough institutional memory.
In this case, if Fed looked back to near their rules committee's inception, they'd see that serious consideration was given to changing the rules to award a TD in such situations,
even if the foul were not deliberate. They could at least benefit from looking at the discussion of proposals like that.
It's at least slightly amusing that over a long enough period of time, some rules provisions have gone back & forth more than once between two versions. Each way they had it had pluses & minuses, but they were always the
same pluses & minuses, so you'd think they'd settle on one or the other, or something else. But it was always a long enough period of time that hardly anybody knew of the previous cycle.
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This is caused by the lack of officials on the committee or the people that represent states. If there were mostly officials, I think someone would have told them this was a problem. Instead people that do not enforce rules never think of the possibilities. And yes someone will give me one example of a guy that is an official or once was an official having a say, but it is obviously not enough voices to stop the NF from these stupid rulings.
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That would help, but I don't think it's their main problem. I think they get enough input that way, maybe could use a little more.
I've seen the result when they don't get input that way, though. It was the rule book written by the IWFL several years ago. It is perhaps the world's worst example of technical writing. Their head of officials was left out of the loop and saw the awful product too late.