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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4499884, member: 289"] Per Wikipedia, the rule was: "If it bounced off Fuqua without ever touching Tatum, then Harris's reception was illegal. If the ball bounced off only Tatum, [B]or if it bounced off both Fuqua and Tatum (in any order)[/B], then the reception was legal." Also: "In 2004 John Fetkovich, an emeritus professor of physics at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University']Carnegie Mellon University[/URL], analyzed the NFL Films clip of the play. He concluded, based on the trajectory of the bounced ball and conservation of momentum, that the ball must have bounced off Tatum, who was running upfield at the time, rather than Fuqua, who was running across and down the field.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Reception#cite_note-35'][35][/URL] Fetkovich also performed experiments by throwing a football against a brick wall at a velocity greater than 60 feet per second (18 meters per second), twice the speed Fetkovich calculated that Bradshaw's pass was traveling when it reached Tatum and Fuqua. Fetkovitch achieved a maximum rebound of 10 feet (3.0 meters) when the ball hit point first, and 15 feet (4.6 m) when the ball hit belly first, both less than the 24 feet (7.3 m) that the ball rebounded during the play. Timothy Gay, a physics professor, and a longtime Raiders fan,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Reception#cite_note-36'][36][/URL] cited Fetkovich's work with approval in his book [I]The Physics of Football[/I], and concluded that "the referees made the right call in the Immaculate Reception." And: "Terry Bradshaw himself had made points similar to those of Fetkovich 15 years earlier, stating that he did not think that he had thrown the ball hard enough for it to bounce that far back off Fuqua and that since Fuqua was running across the field, the ball would have veered to the right if it had hit him. Bradshaw opined that the ball must have bounced off the upfield-moving Tatum – if that had happened then "Tatum's momentum carries the ball backward." I would think it was obvious that the ball could not have bounced so far backwards unless Tatum hit it. [/QUOTE]

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