Down after penalty enforcement

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

I would hope that if there was a TD that our officials would be slow enough on the flag to not have DPI in the first place.

On a slight-contact-before-the-ball-arrives type DPI, sure, but it's not terribly hard to imagine a scenario where you'd look bad for not throwing on a DPI foul even if the ball was caught for a touchdown.

A real example that happened to me in a JV game several years ago: A80 jumps to catch a pass over his head in the end zone, but B18 interferes with A80 such that he can only get one arm up above his head. A80 then tips the ball with the hand he was able to get over his head, and the pass is subsequently caught by A84.

Also, if you don't call an obvious DPI on a touchdown-scoring play and Team A is called for a foul during the play (holding, illegal formation, whatever), now you've gone from offsetting fouls to penalizing Team A because you didn't throw a flag "because they scored anyway"