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Originally Posted by Jerm
That rule is asinine to me...even more so than a fumble into the endzone being a touchback.
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I'm trying to recall if that's always been a rule. I have some very vague memory of it changing when I was a child.
I don't like it either, but I bet there's some reason for it. Perhaps it was just that every fumble became a touchdown for the punting team given the positioning of the players?