Interestingly enough, we played a team Friday night whose Nose Guard kept trying to do this exact thing - on every snap he was trying to slap the ball as our Center snapped it...I told our Center that if he ever snapped it slowly enough for the guy to actually get a hand on it, he would be standing next to me the remainder of the game. The Nose never even came close, but he was persistent. Needless to say, we ran up the middle a LOT because the Nose was always off balance from swinging his arm around like that.