Re: injury footage

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

If you look closely, it looks like his in-bounds foot was his last
point of contact.  Therefore, since this was a piviotal call late in
the game that was totally blown, we should call that a goal and replay
the game from that point forward.

Haha.

Actually, althought the observers probably did get this one wrong, it
is obvious that it was a very close call that could have been ruled
either way.  As one of the few sober people there that watched the
whole game, I think the observers did a good job with a very
late-in-the-afternoon drunken crowd usually screaming for the wrong
call.  There isn't one Condor that would say this call lost us the
game.  We are big fans of observers, I have noticed that it seems they
rule in our favor the majority of the time.   We lost becuase Furious
played a better game.  A belated congrats to them, hope my knee is
ready to go in Finland.  I'll go cover guys with crappier fakes than
Jeff.


Corey