Sigh. Here goes. If the forward-right pointing nose of the ball broke the plane before the leftward- pointing backside of the ball touched the ground out of bounds, then the leading and forward-most part of the football would not have struck the pylon (you made me use the word again) the way that it did. There is absolutely nothing that is controversial about this. Your theory is an impossibility. The part of the ball that first hits the pylon is the forward-most part of the ball. It has to be, because only the front part of the pylon was hit. Your argument could work if the interior corner was hit first, but it clearly was not hit first, or at all. The football hits the ground out of bounds and then hits the front of the pylon, which is flush with the goal line. That means it did not break the plane before being out of bounds. That is the only possible conclusion.