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Originally Posted by HLin NC
No, some people just think the snapper is ineligible. I don't think they are confusing it with the "fumblerooski" or forward handoff.
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What confuses people is any play they haven't seen, or haven't seen in a long time. People hardly ever see such a hyperunbalanced line that an end is the snapper, so some come to think such unseen things are illegal. A coach at Huey's a few days ago posted that he thought in NCAA there had to be at least one line player on each side of the snapper. Maybe he got that from some version of 7- or 8-a-side touch football.
I used to hear such things as, "They used to drop kick until they made it illegal." Indeed Fed in recent times has used the rarity of a play as a reason for banning it. When they outlawed the return kick, the reason given was not safetly but that the officials would err on such a rare play. Wasn't that also the reason given for limiting forward passes to 1 per down (even though that makes it harder to administer now)? Funny, but they didn't seem to think that an important consider'n when they took that restriction off, but thinking was apparently different then. Maybe they thought it would be used more often, the way NCAA thought when they instituted the 2-pt. try that it would become the norm. That's why they moved the spot of the try from the 2 to the 3 yard line. By the time AFL got going, they had a couple of years of NCAA's experience and realized they needed no such discouragement, so they kept the spot of the try at the 2. Still most teams ostensibly kicking snapped from the 3 yard line, just to use the 10 yard stripe as a convenient marker to place the ball for the kick.