What have you got here, if anything?
 

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Obviously dependent on what level you're working...and assuming he wasn't off-sides/encroaching, which it looks like but wasn't called..

NFHS and NCAA, assuming no encroachment/offside then nothing. It's legal to dive over an opponent.

Nothing, why?

What are you wanting us to have?

Odd question, honestly. No offense.

I know there's nothing in FED, wanted to know if there were any cracks at NCAA or NFL level, although I didn't think so either.

There are a LOT of guys I've seen in discussions on this play on a few different site including the link with the video that assume this is hurdling.

Good stuff.

The head & shoulders of the diving player are so far out in front of the lower part of his body, his feet so far behind, it's hard to see how anyone could make such a mistake unless they were screwed up on the definition of hurdling; even understanding the ordinary dictionary meaning should be enough to distinguish a dive like that from a hurdle.

But are they officials?

A true hurdle in Fed is nigh close to unicorn level on the seen it scale.

That wasn't even the right end to be a hurdle.

In a couple of instances, yes...these were officials. I can't find the link/page, but a handful of guys mentioned that they were told by their superiors at a clinic that leaving your feet (diving) constituted the same definition because of the player diving over the top like he did. I forgot what state. Classic misinterpretation I would imagine.

Don't know how the derive that from "feet or knees foremost.

Some people just make $#&* up.

Agreed.

If it read "leading with the feet or knee(s)" it would still throw people off, insinuating a flying Bruce Lee kick was the only way that could happen.