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Team A 1D/10 @ A-20. (to be confirmed)
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Pope Francis Last edited by JugglingReferee; Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 07:46pm. |
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While a pass is in flight, any player eligible to touch the ball may bat it in any direction (Exception: Rule 9-4-2) Rule 9-4-2 A backward pass in flight shall not be batted forward by the passing team. Your assumption is incorrect by rule. I'm not sure if the philosophy of this rule though matches what you say. The definition of batting is "intentionally striking it or intentionally changing its direction with the hands or arms." The definition of a muff is "an unsuccessful attempt to catch or recover a ball that it touched in the attempt." In the play you describe you could possibly call it a muff if you want to let it go. |
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I could make the situation even funnier for a Fed ruling. Say in batting the opponent's backward pass to prevent it from landing out of bounds, the player bats it toward the batting player's own goal line, but on hitting the field of play it takes a funny hop and bounces into the original passing team's end zone. Clearly the ball would not have gone into the end zone absent the opponent's bat, but the force the opponent imparted to the ball was away from that end zone rather than towards it.
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You're right. thanks for the correction.
I thought I'd read something about "an attempt to gain yardage" recently, and I had....in the 2005 rulebook I had in my car. (probably a bad habit to keep those around. haha.) Granted, the forward batting of a backwards pass foul has got to be one of the rarest calls, but any idea on whether there were actual plays (in big games?) that prompted the rule change? Also, when did it change? In my opinion, it does make more sense the way it is now. Better to disallow it completely than have the official try to divine the intent of a running back who bats a pitch forward. |
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Yes, but by "in the air" I didn't mean the ball hadn't been previously grounded, just that it was not dead by virtue of rolling over the sideline. Think high bounce. Or even not so high.
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