Re: injury footage

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Biggle) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Was checking out the other videos on this page and I have a question
> about the one with the guy landing just barely out of bounds.  It
> appears that receiver landed out of bands after what looks like the
> defender bumping into him some.  What is the correct call in this
> situation? (no call, OB, inbounds, foul, etc)

I saw that one too and had the same question... at first blush it
looks like a force-out foul and should be a good score.

But take a look at it again, paying particular attention to the
position of the feet *before* the jump.  One foot is in-bounds, but it
looks like the other foot is out-of-bounds.

According to rule IX.C., "Any object or player contacting an
out-of-bounds area is out-of-bounds. An airborne player whose last
ground contact was with
an out-of-bounds area is out-of-bounds..."

So, he's out of bounds before he jumps.  He's still an out-of-bounds
player when he 'catches' the disc, making the disc out of bounds at
that instant (check the OOB rules for clarification if necessary).  So
it really doesn't matter what happened after that... OOB is the
correct call.

Hm... however, as an afterthought, I didn't replay it to see whether
he lifted his OOB foot first on his jump (and would that mean he's
fully in-bounds the split-second before the jump) or vice-versa.  ...
or does that open up another whole can-of-worms.