Dropping the Ball at the 1/2 Yardline

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

I may be the only one but I never saw definitive proof that he actually dropped the ball before he crossed the goal line.

Every shot I’ve seen shows the ball still touching his hand when he was across the goal line, even though he was in the process of dropping it. If that’s the only footage, that’s not definitive proof that he didn’t actually cross the goal line while still possessing the ball.

Remember, it was called a touchdown on the field. They needed to have ABSOLUTE proof in order to overturn that.

Maybe there was and I just missed it.

Of course, none of this excuses Taylor’s dumb ass.

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I thought so, too.

The rule is that the split-second the the ball touches the front end of the thick, solid white line, then it's a touchdown ....... it's like a zap of electricity the nanosecond that any part of the ball even touches that imaginary plane that goes straight up from the ground to the sky.


I don't think that any angles showed definitively whether or not he did or did not cross that imaginary plane ...... but just the fact that Taylor made it at all questionable and reviewable is the reason why it will now go down as the worst day of his professional football career.

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