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To: kevkrom
BTW... I wish the entire NFL rulebook were available on the web. The "digest" posted on NFL.com that you linked to is woefully incomplete...

I agree, they should have the entire rulebook posted on nfl.com in pdf form, I agree since the rules change so much they should give the fans access the complete rule book.

168 posted on 02/06/2006 8:20:40 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
I can't say this is a definitive source, but according to this site "down by contact" requires (Rule 7, Section 4, Article I):

Note that last sentence: The contact by the defense player must be the cause of the runner going down. Hasslebeck was already going down before the incidental contact and was no longer in contact with the defnder when he hit the ground. Unless this is an outdated version of the rule, he was not down by contact when he hit the ground and subsequently fumbled. The original call of a fumble recovered by Pittsburgh should have stood.

191 posted on 02/06/2006 8:35:36 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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