Re: injury footage

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mortakai) wrote in message...
> 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.

I came to the same conclusion.
 
> 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.

I thought about that--and it looked to me like the receiver jumped off
both feet. At the very least it was close enough that, without the
help of super-slo-mo replay, the OOB call seems reasonable.