The SanityPrompt

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Monday, January 09, 2006

Good Question

I have wondered about this too.

Don Banks of SI.com (Snap Judgments (cont.) - Sunday January 8, 2006) asks:

"I know the Edell Shepherd non-catch was the right call by rule in the Bucs-Redskins game, but here's what always has made me scratch my head when it comes to what constitutes possession in the end zone:

How is it you can score by merely breaking the plane of the end zone, even if you fumble the ball away a millisecond later, but you can have what looks to be a catch ruled incomplete even after you've had the ball for a step and a half in the end zone?"