Rule Clarification to a play we discussed

[Dan_ref]

Originally posted by Self

No one said unanimous. Maybe you could use Webster and see that consensus means an opinion held by ALL or MOST. A general agreement.

So since everyone was saying one of these three. It would be correct to say. "There was no consensus among the group".

Thanks..... [/B]

I'll be happy to use Webster if you also promise to reread the thread, in particular pay close attention to Juulie's soapbox "rant" where she claims concensus appears to be used today to strongly imply "unanimity".

And since I'm typing, I'll add that I agree with Tony that practically anything you did on this play was acceptable. Well, anything short of declaring a forfeit or blowing the play dead due to a throw-in violation (in other words I disagree with the NF ruling as you presented it). When, exactly, are we to decide that passing/handing the ball to a team mate who is also inbounds constitues a throw-in? IMO this is exactly the wrong way to handle the play, it should be a delay warning or blown dead & done again properly without comment, depending on the situation.