Please explain opening kickoff

[Da Frogs]

Surely there is a ref on this board who can explain how a player can kneel out of bounds, reach onto the field of play, and grab the football that is laying inbounds, and it’s considered a kick out of bounds??!

 

[Eight]

Surely there is a ref on this board who can explain how a player can kneel out of bounds, reach onto the field of play, and grab the football that is laying inbounds, and it’s considered a kick out of bounds??!

simple, that is the way the rule reads.

as to why it is written that way, entirely different matter, but that was the right call.

 

[Pharm Frog]

Smart player making a smart play

 

[Big Frog II]

It's a bad rule, but it was also a very smart play. Got to give they guy some credit for doing what he did at the start of a game.

 

[Shorty]

Rugby has similar rules for kicks. There are circumstances where if a ball is kicked directly out of bounds it goes back to where it is kicked. If it bounces in bounds first it is placed where it went out of bounds. A smart player will put 1 foot out of bounds and catch a ball that was going to land in bounds, causing it to go back to where it was kicked. Perhaps that rule carried over to football.

 

[TxFrog1999]

One would assume the correct call is touch inbounds by a player out of bounds therefore the ball is dead at that spot.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

One would assume the correct call is touch inbounds by a player out of bounds therefore the ball is dead at that spot.

A ball touched by an oob player is always ruled oob, dead at that spot. But on kickoffs, that’s a penalty.

 

[TopFrog]

One would assume the correct call is touch inbounds by a player out of bounds therefore the ball is dead at that spot.

Nah, it is an out of bounds kick. It was weird. Hadn't seen that before.

 

[froglash88]

Dumb rules are dumb

 

[Pharm Frog]

A ball touched by an oob player is always ruled oob, dead at that spot. But on kickoffs, that’s a penalty.

True of any free kick.

 

[Surfrog]

Simple: If the ball is in bounds but a receiver lands with his feet out of bounds, the catch is ruled out of bounds. similar rule and many players have done the same thing. Smart play on their end.

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

True of any free kick.

Yeah, forgot to mention that you also can’t kick a fair catch free kick field goal attempt oob.

 

[Pharm Frog]

Yeah, forgot to mention that you also can’t kick a fair catch free kick field goal attempt oob.

Or a free kick after safety punted or kicked

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

Or a free kick after safety punted or kicked

That’s a kickoff.

 

[mcdaddy]

Surely there is a ref on this board who can explain how a player can kneel out of bounds, reach onto the field of play, and grab the football that is laying inbounds, and it’s considered a kick out of bounds??!

@Zebra Frog

 

[Zebra Frog]

@Zebra Frog

As mentioned earlier, any ball touched by a player that is OB puts the ball OB. VERY smart play by the player.

 

[Realtorfrog]

Right call dumb rule!

I had never seen that and thought what a fool....... I was the fool.

 

[flyfishingfrog]

Need to change the rule to be where the ball is, not the player

Smart play- bad rule

 

[dkfrog]

I was always curious why that wasn’t illegal touching (being the first to touch the ball after leaving the field of play)?

 

[Frog-in-law1995]

I was always curious why that wasn’t illegal touching (being the first to touch the ball after leaving the field of play)?

That’s only on a pass.