They just mentioned on the Sunday Night Football warmup that that’s a touchdown at any level of football but the NFL, based on an arcane rule change in, I believe they said, 2010.
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Yes..... thank you. As I mentioned in my initial post, that rule is relatively new (as you said) and totally insane.
But even with it, if you read the damn rule, he still should have been rewarded the TD.
Oh well.... Steelers/Patriots again most likely later this year.