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Lupus
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I don't really like either team, but it is a great game.
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I'm watching it. [Big Grin]
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Just another Dharma bum
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Awesome game [Smile]

EDIT: OH MAN!

That guy got clotheslined, that's horrible, they had to carry him off the field... [Eek!]

[ December 19, 2004, 07:21 PM: Message edited by: Just another Dharma bum ]
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I, uh, turned it off.
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mackillian
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That was awful [Frown]
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Since I missed all the game up to Sorenson recovering the onside kick, what was so good about it?
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I was there, and it was crap. The crowd spent more time booing and yelling about bad calls than anything else.

Maybe someone can explain to me why Driver's catch in the endzone toward the end of the game wasn't a touchdown. He caught the ball, his feet hit the ground, then it was stripped out of his hands. How much more control of the ball does a person need for a touchdown?
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The announcers kept saying that he didn't have control of it for long enough--he only got one foot on the ground when he looked like he had possession, then it got stripped.

Dunno.
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Ah, bread and butter Jeni.... [Smile]
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I don't think you have to have both feet on the ground. The ball has to break the plane.
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I thought so too. But it's what the announcers said. [Dont Know]
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I am also a bit curious why it took so long for the officials to decide to eject Darius from the game. They called the penalty, and it wasn't until like five minutes later and a lot of arguing with Green Bay folk that they finally sent him off the field. I'd have thought that was a no-brainer.
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you have to have control of the ball though...they ruled that he never had control
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What constitutes having control of the ball?
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Having the ball not being juggled around and tucked into your arm.
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You have to get both feet down AND have control of the ball.

Driver did not get both feet down and never established control of the ball.

This was great game though...Jimmy Smith and Fred Taylor put me into my league's Superbowl!

[ December 20, 2004, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Traveler ]
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What Traveler said. There are two elements: You have to make a catch, and the ball has to break the plane.

To make the catch, control and two feet on the ground are required. I believe they can touch in succession, but I'm not sure. Once you make the catch, you possess the ball.

To score a touchdown, the ball must be in a player's possession while any part of it is across the plane. So if you have possession and enter the end zone, a touchdown is scored the instant the ball breaks the plane, even if you drop it immediately afterwards or no part of your body touches the end zone.

If you are catching the ball inside the end zone, the touchdown is scored the instant you have possession. And you don't have possession until both feet touch while you have control of the ball.

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