{"id":2023,"date":"2010-09-13T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:44:31","slug":"the-ground-can-too-cause-a-fumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/sports\/the-ground-can-too-cause-a-fumble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ground CAN TOO Cause a Fumble!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can, that is, if you&#8217;re a Detroit Lion.  Hey, I&#8217;m a Packer fan, but I have to agree with Derrick Dennis at <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/460741-lions-get-tuck-ruled-out-of-a-win-nfl-sends-in-the-spin-doctors\">Bleacher Report<\/a> on this one.  Yes, I&#8217;ve read the rule, but Calvin Johnson was clearly in possession of the ball when he hit the ground, and he maintained possession until he made a move to get up.  What does the guy have to do?  Take two laps around the stadium with the ball in both arms before the refs will count the score?  I carry sports grudges for a long time, but this is enough to make me forget all about the <a href=\"http:\/\/packerville.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/thanksgiving-1962.html\">Turkey Day Massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LSYDYI4F4xs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The+Ground+CAN+TOO+Cause+a+Fumble%21\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/sports\/the-ground-can-too-cause-a-fumble\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can, that is, if you&#8217;re a Detroit Lion. Hey, I&#8217;m a Packer fan, but I have to agree with Derrick Dennis at Bleacher Report on this one. Yes, I&#8217;ve read the rule, but Calvin Johnson was clearly in possession of the ball when he hit the ground, and he maintained possession until he made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/sports\/the-ground-can-too-cause-a-fumble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ground CAN TOO Cause a Fumble!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-wD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}