[Husker] kick reception interference

[Mark Landin]

>From what I saw, the marlowe call was botched but given how many
players from both teams were in that small area, it was easy to see
how the refs didn't see everything correctly.

For burkhead, that call was harder to defend. He fielded the ball
cleanly without signalling fair catch, and got levelled with a legal
tackle a fraction of a second later. While I sympathize with Superman,
there was no basis for a flag there. He was not impeded and the tackle
was clean and within the rules.

The third penalty was correct by rule.

Again, my opinion.

On 9/19/11, Theodore Heise <theo at heise.nu> wrote:
>
>
>> From my perspective in south stadium, the call on the Burkhead
>> punt return was absolutely correct. This isn't the halo rule; you
>> have to have a chance to catch the punt, and Washington didn't
>> give him a chance.  The rules quoted online show the calls were
>> correct. But I haven't seen a single replay.
>
> Not to belabor the point, but if he made the catch doesn't that say
> something about having had an adequate chance to catch the punt?
>
> Good point that nobody thought it newsworthy enough to show widely
> in replays.
>
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