Filed under: Boston College, Notre Dame, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Officiating
I wasn't watching the game, but I received an e-mail pointing me to the first half of the Notre Dame-Stanford game this past Saturday.Apparently there was a play where a receiver caught a pass going toward the end zone and had a little encounter with everyone's favorite orange friend: the pylon.
Like the foul-pole in baseball, it's a boundary marker that signifies something is in play, instead of out. (Other than on kicking plays, but let's ignore that for now)
Anyway, on this particular play, I was told the receiver's foot hit the pylon while he had possession of the football and was on his way to the ground. The ruling, which was correct, was an incomplete pass. The reason it was the correct ruling was that the receiver caught the pass in midair and hadn't yet hit the ground. The distinction is that, while the pylon is used to signify being inbounds in many cases, touching it does not equal touching the ground -- as it is technically positioned out of bounds. Had the player gotten one foot down before kicking the pylon with his other -- as long as he had possession of the ball and the ball was breaking the plane of the end zone, of course -- it would have been a touchdown. Instead, he didn't get one foot down inbounds, even though he hit the object that often signals inbounds.
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