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Originally Posted by 9thIsleZebra
Here's another one that needs clarification
Rule 6-1-9 states that if K causes a free kick to go out of bounds, R has the following choices:
Accept a 5 yard penalty from previous spot and have K re-kick
Accept a 5 yard penalty from succeeding spot (new)
Put the ball in play at inbounds spot 25 yards beyond previous spot
Decline penalty and put ball in play at inbounds spot
So if R chooses to put the ball in play 25 yards from the previous spot, do they get another 5 yards added to it?
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I understand the rule revision to mean NO. The "new" option seems clearly intended as an "additional" choice to the existing options, NOT an enhancement to those options, so now (in support of the effort to reduce re-kicks) there is a "new" choice.
The offended team now gets to choose a, b, c
OR d (NOT add this new option to any of the existing options