Fumble

[Tom Cook]

This should be in the "Pet Peeves" section. If A fumbles the ball forward any A player can recover the ball and A gets to keep the yardage gained. I believe that this unfairly rewards the offense for a mistake. It actually happened to me, (A long time ago in a galaxy far away). It was 4th and 7. The QB fumbled, short of the line-to-gain, the ball bounced forward about 6 yards, and yours truly recovered for a first down. We scored the go-ahead TD on that posession, won the game,conference and were undefeated. Since I've become an official I've felt a little guilty about that one.