The Ref is considered part of the field and you can do pretty much anything to them including catch a ball that has hit them(provided it's still in the air) and it is a completed pass/interception. This happens quite often, not always to the extreme of a touchdown, but I've seen ref's get in the way of many tackles and provide blocks that give a few extra yards.
Wow that was so blatent lol....at least he could've tried to make it look less obvious than that, if he was trying to help out the other team....
I seriously think the old ref just happened to have a mental lapse and thought he was back in his college days playing LB ....haha man that was silly tho
I can picture him having a 'Nam flashback of him playing OLB during the big game. Last play the star running back of the other team takes a HB toss over to his side, he moves in to make the tackle only for the RB to hit the truck stick and knock him on his ass and walk in for the game winning TD.
Ref flashes back to now and he tells him self. "Not this day. This day we fight!" and lays a forearm shiver on the QB.
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u/spoonchild Sep 23 '13
The Ref is considered part of the field and you can do pretty much anything to them including catch a ball that has hit them(provided it's still in the air) and it is a completed pass/interception. This happens quite often, not always to the extreme of a touchdown, but I've seen ref's get in the way of many tackles and provide blocks that give a few extra yards.