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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 534737">I answered that, twice in fact.  As I quoted SI, "Parkinson ruled that Green Bay quarterback Don Majkowski's hand, moving forward at the time, had not broken the plane of the line of scrimmage before releasing a pass."The old rule was based on the location of the ball at the time of release.  The final ruling in the "Replay Game", as the Bears like to call it, was that the ball was behind the line of scrimmage at release.You are not alone in your contrary interpretation; you have a lot of company in Chicago.  In the course of researching this, one blogger commented that the Bears media guide had an asterisk next to this game for a decade.  I can't say if that's an urban myth.Also in the course of researching this I came across another reporter stating that the NFL rule prior to 1933 was that QB had to be 5 yds. behind the line of scrimmage, for whatever that's worth.</blockquote>

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