Thread: Onside kicks
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Old Mon Nov 26, 2007, 05:19pm
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by davidj80016
I know that a kick must go at least ten yards before the kicking team can recover the ball. At what point can the kicking team no longer recover the ball? THANKS
When it becomes dead. Once the conditions are established that make recovery by K legal, it stays legal, doesn't expire.

Your use of "no longer" suggests you have in mind NFL rules, where they made a rule change about 20 years ago and worded it historically (and dumbly), saying of the free kick following a fair catch, "This is no longer a free kick ball....", going on to say that K can't recover unless first touched by R.

Robert
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