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Offline TXMike

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The New "Dive"
« on: February 05, 2011, 07:28:43 PM »
He tripped right?

[yt=425,350]rP4e7B652Qc[/yt]
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 10:18:31 PM »
Right. And the crew was wearing black pants, too.
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 12:52:10 AM »
Well, we wouldn't flag this in Europe! I'm surprised it wasn't flagged in the game though  ;)
On the other hand, most of us would probably keel over after a run like that, so he should be given some slack!
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 05:48:03 AM »
When the ball carrier approaches the goalline, is that the B closing in - as if to make a tackle?  What if the ball carrier decided to do a Blackmon?
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 06:51:45 AM »
Then I would have had a video clip for the ages!!!   ;D
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2011, 02:16:02 PM »
Quote from: TXMike on February 05, 2011, 07:28:43 PM
He tripped right?


Looks like he tripped over the letter "L" in Look at me!
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 03:42:49 PM »
He is on the world team...maybe he is used to playing rugby.
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2011, 06:33:17 PM »
Quote from: jrfath on February 06, 2011, 03:42:49 PM
He is on the world team...maybe he is used to playing rugby.

That did look quite a bit like a player putting down a try (required in both rugby codes in order to score).  With this knowledge and the game context, I have no foul, at least not until at least one (and maybe more) talking tos.
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Re: The New "Dive"
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2011, 07:11:22 AM »
You may decide to flag or not to flag on whatever grounds you can come up with, but I can pretty much promise you that no player thought they were playing rugby out there. These were football players playing their game - football.
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