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Old Fri Dec 04, 2015, 04:43pm
jchamp jchamp is offline
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If he looks like he's in the end zone, I'm ruling him to be in the end zone. If I happen to be calling a game where someone can do a frame-by-frame look and tell the ball was released from outside the end zone, good for them. I'm not seeing a reason, when every spectator is going to see a penalty committed from the end zone, and when I'm probably not in position on the goal line to be certain, or even suspect otherwise, that it shouldn't be ruled from in the end zone.
So, letter of the law, penalize him three inches. Practical application of the law, award a Safety. Kid shouldn't be throwing a forward pass, anyways. He'll learn a valuable life lesson-don't do stupid things in public-and go on to live another day.
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