[NU Sports] The end zone

[Clark Zahn]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 15, 2010 11:54 AM
>To: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>
>Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] The end zone
>
>Thick padding has been added all along the wall (it's actually
>painted/designed to look like ivy, but with an Allstate logo conveniently
>placed) to try and prevent such situations.  But, it is indeed a tight fit,
>and along about half of the east end zone there is just 6" clearance between
>the back of the end zone and the wall.  It is an improvement over old Bears
>games, when the field went north-south and a corner of the south end zone
>was actually cut off by the dugout (which was covered, thankfully).
>
>In any case, I doubt we'll see many running grabs in the back of that end
>zone.
>

That could make for some difficult decisions for the officials to make.

If a player bounces off the wall and doesn't touch the ground was he out of bounds?  Or if player uses one hand on the wall to keep from going out of bounds is he still in bounds?  What if a another player is against the wall and he bonces off of him.

This could get interesting.  I wonder if there are any rules specifically written for these situations.