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Post by Mitchell on Oct 24, 2010 18:51:36 GMT -5
Explain the nuances of . . .football. . . A down can end when one of the following happens to a ball carrier: A] the officials deem his forward progress has been stopped. B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. OK, sounds great, but what if, as a ballcarrier, I'm 20 yards from the end zone, not going to get tackled, there's three seconds left in the game. . .I can't make a TD in three seconds, but I could be downed and call a timeout in time. I'm in the middle of the field, so I can't run out of bounds, and fumblerooskying the ball out of bounds is too risky. How can I make that happen without violating the "failure to advance" rule OR praying some opposing player is dump enough to touch me if I take a swan dive?
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Oct 24, 2010 19:24:51 GMT -5
B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. I never knew football was so...sexy.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 25, 2010 7:42:30 GMT -5
Explain the nuances of . . .football. . . A down can end when one of the following happens to a ball carrier: A] the officials deem his forward progress has been stopped. B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. OK, sounds great, but what if, as a ballcarrier, I'm 20 yards from the end zone, not going to get tackled, there's three seconds left in the game. . .I can't make a TD in three seconds, but I could be downed and call a timeout in time. I'm in the middle of the field, so I can't run out of bounds, and fumblerooskying the ball out of bounds is too risky. How can I make that happen without violating the "failure to advance" rule OR praying some opposing player is dump enough to touch me if I take a swan dive? What happens if you fumble, i.e. throw, the ball into the endzone rather than out of bounds?
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 25, 2010 8:02:32 GMT -5
You lose your contract and wind up selling your jersey in a pawn shop in San Diego.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Oct 25, 2010 16:03:35 GMT -5
This thread used to be about the platypus!
YOU GUYS HAVE STRAYED FROM THE PLATYPUS!!!!
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Post by Birdgirl90 on Oct 25, 2010 20:01:37 GMT -5
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Post by Mitchell on Oct 25, 2010 22:30:38 GMT -5
A down can end when one of the following happens to a ball carrier: A] the officials deem his forward progress has been stopped. B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. OK, sounds great, but what if, as a ballcarrier, I'm 20 yards from the end zone, not going to get tackled, there's three seconds left in the game. . .I can't make a TD in three seconds, but I could be downed and call a timeout in time. I'm in the middle of the field, so I can't run out of bounds, and fumblerooskying the ball out of bounds is too risky. How can I make that happen without violating the "failure to advance" rule OR praying some opposing player is dump enough to touch me if I take a swan dive? What happens if you fumble, i.e. throw, the ball into the endzone rather than out of bounds? Would be hard to do from the distance I'm picturing without stopping in the field of play, but also note a fumble that goes past the endline is a touchback.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 25, 2010 22:48:32 GMT -5
What happens if you fumble, i.e. throw, the ball into the endzone rather than out of bounds? Would be hard to do from the distance I'm picturing without stopping in the field of play, but also note a fumble that goes past the endline is a touchback. K. What if he punts it? Is that just a foul and the end of the play? Or what if he takes off his helmet? Does that stop the clock?
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Post by Mitchell on Oct 26, 2010 7:53:17 GMT -5
Punting would be an illegal touch that would end the game with a ten-second runoff for a team that's behind. Taking off the helmet, while interesting, would probably be unsportsmanlike and also get the ten-second runoff.
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 26, 2010 7:58:35 GMT -5
But it would be cool if he took off the helmet and then got nailed by something, like a football or Janet Jackson's breast.
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Post by GodoHell on Oct 26, 2010 8:09:44 GMT -5
[insert tight end/wide receiver joke here]
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 26, 2010 10:20:37 GMT -5
I'll admit I'm quite intrigued. So it has to involve one of these: A down can end when one of the following happens to a ball carrier: A] the officials deem his forward progress has been stopped. B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. So what happens if he just stops and starts running backwards? Forward progress has stopped? But that can't be right or else anytime a runner backtracks for a second, the play would be over. Faking an injury would get the 10-second rule again, right? I think I give up. Enlighten me.
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 26, 2010 11:43:23 GMT -5
Faking an injury would get the 10-second rule again, right? I think they do that in those commie futbol games. You and your short-shorted Spaniards.
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Post by Don Quixote on Oct 26, 2010 14:29:08 GMT -5
It's up to the official. I mean, there's a difference between backtracking to avoid a tackle and finding a strategic way to complete the play and just flat out running backwards.
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Post by Mitchell on Oct 26, 2010 21:58:21 GMT -5
I'll admit I'm quite intrigued. So it has to involve one of these: A down can end when one of the following happens to a ball carrier: A] the officials deem his forward progress has been stopped. B] a part of his body other than his hands or feet touches the playing surface while touching an opposing player. So what happens if he just stops and starts running backwards? Forward progress has stopped? But that can't be right or else anytime a runner backtracks for a second, the play would be over. Faking an injury would get the 10-second rule again, right? I think I give up. Enlighten me. A ballcarrier must be making an effort to advance the ball. . .that receiver for Denver that ran parallel to the goal line last year to eat clock should have been flagged. Running sideways or backwards to avoid tacklers is fine, but running around in a circle to eat clock is unsportsmanlike. You could fake an injury and provided the team still had a timeout (which in my scenario they would have to) there wouldn't be a runoff unless the officials were sure it was a fake, BUT I think they still wouldn't whistle the play dead until an opposing player touched the ballcarrier. . .and it's risky that would work and get a timeout before the clock expires. The nuance that I was asking about: a ballcarrier can declare himself down by taking a knee and telling the official "down." He could then call a timeout. Why am I doing Crowfan's job?
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