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Originally Posted by jidar

Is there something about initiating contact in the rule book?

Hmm, dunno about that one - thus the reason I think it should be a non-call. There IS a rule regarding contact after five yards... and the DB broke it. He reached out and put his hands on the receiver; the receiver brought his arm down to get the DB's hands off of him, then made the catch. Technically the DB committed pass interference since he initiated contact after five yards with the ball in the air. The receiver brushing off the DB's hands did NOT commit OPI, but it could be construed as illegal contact; that is, if the DB hadn't put his hands there first. Either way, it was ticky-tack penalty and NEITHER player should have been flagged. But for the sake of consistency the refs penalized the Seahag player