Thread: Fair Catch Rule
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Old Wed Oct 08, 2003, 06:50pm
Warrenkicker Warrenkicker is offline
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Originally posted by OntarioBucsFan
Is that not why kickers "bounce" the footbal? Then it becomes live? Or can you still fair catch a bounced football?
Look forward to the answers.
Thanks in advance.
6-5-2 It is a fair catch and the ball is dead if any receiver gives a valid fair-catch signal and he catches a free kick in or beyond the neutral zone to R s goal line, or a scrimmage kick beyond the neutral zone to R s goal line. (That means he catches the kick in flight.)

This is exactly why the kicker pounds the ball off of the ground on an on-side kick.
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