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Originally Posted by sir_eldren
I had a high school game last week where I had an inadvertent facemask (5 yards) on an A blocker. After the game, I got reamed up one side and down the other for the call.
I can understand the philosophy of not calling an inadvertant facemask on the runner, but the idea that an A blocker/lineman should be allowed to put their hands on an opponent's facemask and, "oops," grab it does not sit well with me.
Is there a prevailing philosophy on calling facemask fouls on the offense that I have not heard of? Should I just bite the bullet and call all facemask fouls on the offense a "personal foul facemask" to make this particular white hat happy? Or should I call "illegal use of hands," like he suggested?
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I'd say illegal use of hands. If the hand touched the face itself, it'd be at least illegal use of hands, wouldn't it? So why should the bars across the front of his face "save" the blocker from an illegal use of hands call? Shouldn't the headgear count as part of the head?
Of course if it was an actual grab, then personal foul.