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Old Fri Jan 14, 2005, 08:35am
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I've always thought it was ludicrous that the rules call for a safety here. The logic of applying a safety in other cases when the team with the ball fouls in their own end zone is that the foul could have prevented an ACTUAL safety, so we should award it. And that makes sense in cases like a pass play with holding in the EZ. But in this play, A could not have gotten a safety by keeping the B player in the end zone - he didn't HAVE to leave the endzone. BOTH codes need to fix this so that the enforcement spot is the 20. It's stupid that A can score on a play like this. In the original sitch, I would carry that logic forward and say the facemask should be enforced from the 20. (No, I would not rule that way in real life - I just think we're badly in need of a rule change here.)
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