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To: discostu
I don't understand, once the player crosses the goal line with possession, it's a TD. He had two steps. I bet if it had been against Dallas it would have been ruled a TD.
254 posted on 01/07/2006 4:46:15 PM PST by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: All
The Redskins will not make it past Seattle. Take it to the bank. (They were lucky to make it past Tampa)

5.56mm

258 posted on 01/07/2006 4:50:37 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Perdogg

I thought he had possession when his knee hit the ground and that he lost the ball after that.....but I can't swear to it
because I must admit I've been imbibing in fine spirits.


263 posted on 01/07/2006 4:53:13 PM PST by Boston Blackie
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To: Perdogg

The operative term being "with possession" when receiving a catch and falling down a player is not "with possession" until they finish falling down and still holding onto the ball. If he had two steps and THEN started falling (like from getting hit) it would have been a completion, but he was falling before the ball touched him that meant the fall rule applied, and the fall rule says you have to keep holding onto the ball until you fall.


265 posted on 01/07/2006 4:55:40 PM PST by discostu (a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
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To: Perdogg

Wether the call was right or not doesn't bother me. I consider it a payback for the lousy call on Alstott's TD in the first game. I guess it all evens up. Go Skins!


295 posted on 01/07/2006 5:06:39 PM PST by LynnHam
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