obstruction-I think we need the call improved somehow

[bkbjones]

You cannot give blanket amnesty to an obstructed runner.Glance at the rule book and see that if you have interference later on during the play, the interference supercedes the obstruction (I know this was pointed out earlier...trying to reinforce a point here).

As for GODS writing the rule...the ones I know aren't GODS in their minds. If you're talking ASA, you're talking umpires just like thousands of others. Unlike the pope they are (generally) not infallible, but if they say we're gonna do this and this is how we want this called and here is why, then by gawd that's the way I am going to do it. There's almost always a tremendous reason why we do things a certain way...