Rule Question

[Footballfan15]

So the best thing to do is if the ball is going to end up inside the twenty is for the recieving team to hit it or kick it into the end zone so they will get the ball on the 20yrd line.

Edited October 5, 2006 by Footballfan15

[Idunk2]

So the best thing to do is if the ball is going to end up inside the twenty is for the recieving team to hit it or kick it into the end zone so they will get the ball on the 20yrd line.

 

 

Not exactly, if you will notice in my answer I said the force that put the ball in the endzone was the kick. If team B intentionally kicks or bats the ball we have a penalty (illegal batting) and if the ball ends up in the end zone and the force that put it there was B's illegal bat or kick.......we now have a safety.

[o21putt]

Not Exactly, it is either a touchback or safety, unless B possess the ball and fumbles and then A or the kicking team recovers in the end zone or in the field of play and advances it into the end zone after recovering the fumble by the receiving team. Of course, a fumble cannot occur unless a player was in possession of the ball. Under no circumstances can K advance a kick that is beyond the line of scrimmage or free kick line.

Edited October 5, 2006 by papatj

[bigwes68]

Not exactly, if you will notice in my answer I said the force that put the ball in the endzone was the kick. If team B intentionally kicks or bats the ball we have a penalty (illegal batting) and if the ball ends up in the end zone and the force that put it there was B's illegal bat or kick.......we now have a safety.

 

Ah...but force is NEVER a factor on kicks going into R's end zone, since these are always a touchback. And we all know that a kick is a kick until it ends, and it doesn't end until it becomes dead by rule or it is possessed by R. So even if there is a muff, bat, or kick you still have a touchback. But if there is an illegal bat or kick, you still have a penalty. The PSK spot is R's 20...but since the foul occured behind the basic spot, you penalize from the spot of the foul, half the distance to the goal. If the kick was at the 1-yard-line, half the distance, R's ball, 1st and 10 at the 1/2-yard line.

Edited October 6, 2006 by bigwes68

[Idunk2]

Ah...but force is NEVER a factor on kicks going into R's end zone, since these are always a touchback. And we all know that a kick is a kick until it ends, and it doesn't end until it becomes dead by rule or it is possessed by R. So even if there is a muff, bat, or kick you still have a touchback. But if there is an illegal bat or kick, you still have a penalty. The PSK spot is R's 20...but since the foul occured behind the basic spot, you penalize from the spot of the foul, half the distance to the goal. If the kick was at the 1-yard-line, half the distance, R's ball, 1st and 10 at the 1/2-yard line.

 

 

Bigwes has to wear a white hat on Friday nights !

[bigwes68]

Bigwes has to wear a white hat on Friday nights !

 

Not a white one....yet.

[Bulldog_Blocksma]

The situation that you decribed with the muffed kick happened to Bearden against farragut in 2003, and the referees called it a farragut touchdown. farragut ended up winning by like 3 points or something because of that touchdown, kinda annoying......