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Originally Posted by AmoryG
Anyways, the refs had never seen something like this and it took them like 10 minutes to discuess what had happend. I forgot what exactly were the calls, but I think one was for blocking and the other was for impeding the line. In this situation, a complete accident, where none of us can do anything, why should they call any penalties at all?
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Can the refs judge intent? No. It might be deliberate, but they can't tell very well. Sometimes it is obviously deliberate, other times it is clearly incidental, but most of the time it is neither. So they play it safe.
In your situation, it would have been very difficult to judge.
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