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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
I think so in most USAn codes. However, in the NFL ~30 years ago they eliminated the choice after a try but kept it for a few years after a FG before eliminating it there too. I don't know what they were thinking.
Earlier than that in Canadian football they gave the team scored against the additional option of resuming play as if only a rouge, rather than a FG, had been scored against them. At the time that meant scrimmaging from their own 35, and AFAIK that one's still in effect; but the CFL later adopted a rule making the PLS the place to resume following a rouge, but not following a FG, if farther out than the 35.
The only other option I think would be interesting in those versions of football where the goals are on the goal line (only Canadian football now) would be for the ball to remain live following a FG and for play to simply continue. A version of that would be interesting in basketball too. Maybe even lacrosse or hockey if you removed the goal nets.
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True! And in our NCAA-equivalent games, it is always a pre-game mention for the HL to mentally note the LS if a FGA is from outside the 35, because should a downsbox move when they're not supposed to, the HL's memory serves as a backup.
Also note that if the PLS is used, the scrimmaging team DOES NOT get the chance to choose from where between the hash marks the snap is: it is from the PLS, which is the
Point of
Last
Scrimmage,
not the Previous Line of Scrimmage.
Having a missed FGA live in Canadian football is
very very exciting! As soon as the kicked FGA crosses the LS, the side guys go down to cover the pylons, and along with the deep guys, get the "inside-outside look" that we stress.