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31 Dec 2012
Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
A little football, a little basketball, and some bodily function humor. Happy New Year.
5 comments, Last at 01 Jan 2013, 1:33am by Big-Hairy-Andy
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Re: Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
Very enjoyable as always. I really did like how you handled the drug testing stuff too; conveyed the seriousness of the matter at hand and still got the good jokes in. It was what I like to call classic Tanier.
Re: Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
I will say the Jones touchdown officiating debacle was bizarre. Jones was clearly extending the ball and the ball came lose when he hit the ground. The options were either touchdown or down by contact. How the officials ruled fumble, despite the one official who's sole job is to determine if the runner scored consisteningly ruling touchdown is beyond me.
Re: Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
I don't think the only options were touchdown or down by contact. The radio commentary I listened to stated* that if the ball comes loose before the knee is down then "the ground can cause a fumble". Therefore if the officials didn't think that the plane of the goal line had been broken then it follows that a fumble was the correct ruling. Instead replay (and one official as you say) suggest that the plane had been broken before the knee was down so it became a touchdown.
* Whether what they stated is correct, I don't know but it seems logical that if the player isn't down and he loses possession for whatever reason ... dropping it, the ground dislodging it, running into the butt of your linemen ... then it is a fumble.
Re: Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
My understanding is that the ground can only cause a fumble when the player isn't contacted as he goes to the ground. It may also be true in the unlikely circumstance that the player's hand is the only body part other than his feet to contact the ground before he loses the ball.
Re: Mandatory Monday: Run for your Life
The Spergon Wynn line is hilarious.
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