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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
I can't nail down exactly when that wording was put in, but it was around the turn of the century. Not that long a time. So why'd they do it?
if seeing a moving body in a crowd is so hard, surely the same applies to seeing the foremost part of the ball and many other things in the game. But if it adds too much to the burden, I'd be almost as satisfied for them simply to delete the recent definition, and go back to an intuitive understanding of "forward". That was what they had for over a century previous, and I don't know of any problems the lack of a definition caused.
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Forgive me Robert, but "forward" referencing, "when the entire ball is
BEYOND the yard line...." as opposed to "backwards" referencing, " when any part of the ball is on or
BEHIND the yard line...., seems pretty clear, which may contribute to the lack of necessity to enforce violations.