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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Nobody has answered my question of why the logic of "play situation" shouldn't be applied to the passing rules by Fed too. What if it looks like a pass play was called, but team A failed to pass (and thereby draw a foul by B) because their receiver(s) was/were not open because he/they was/were contacted in a way that would've been illegal on a pass play?

That is hard to understand. Can you give a better example including what foul would have been called?

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Actually NFL does have a rule that depends on whether it looks during play as if a pass is still likely, so it's not unprecendented.

Can you quote this rule?

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Come to think of it, why not ban the forward pass except in officially-judged "passing situations"?

I'm fine with that. In every game I have ever seen it has been common for teams to pass on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th down no matter where they are located on the field as well as during tries. So every scrimmage down the entire game would be a passing situation.

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

The reason I asked the above question is that although making scrimmage kick fomation a judgement call based entirely on an official's opinion of the game situation would be a terrible thing

If it is such a terrible thing then how come it works perfectly in NCAA games?