Referee Interference

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Rule 2-3 (elastic powers rule) would be used to justify the "do over" and I thought Ron handled it correctly. I'm not penalizing a team who without me striking the ball, would have made an otherwise legal throw-in.

+1

I'm not penalizing a player for my goof. There's a difference between the thrower throwing the ball into me while I'm out of bounds, and my reaching (albeit accidentally) into the path of the pass. Both cause the ball to be out of bounds, but the latter is my fault.