Side Snap Still Legal?

[Welpe]

Here is what constitutes a legal snap:

ART. 2 . . . The snap begins when the snapper first moves the ball legally other than in adjustment. In a snap, the movement must be a quick and continuous backward motion of the ball during which the ball immediately leaves the hand(s) of the snapper and touches a back or the ground before it touches an A lineman.

In picking up a ball and turning to hand it to the quarterback, the ball is moving backward continuously but it is not immediately leaving the snapper's hands.

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Here is what constitutes a legal snap:

ART. 2 . . . The snap begins when the snapper first moves the ball legally other than in adjustment. In a snap, the movement must be a quick and continuous backward motion of the ball during which the ball immediately leaves the hand(s) of the snapper and touches a back or the ground before it touches an A lineman.

In picking up a ball and turning to hand it to the quarterback, the ball is moving backward continuously but it is not immediately leaving the snapper's hands.

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[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Here is what constitutes a legal snap:

ART. 2 . . . The snap begins when the snapper first moves the ball legally other than in adjustment. In a snap, the movement must be a quick and continuous backward motion of the ball during which the ball immediately leaves the hand(s) of the snapper and touches a back or the ground before it touches an A lineman.

In picking up a ball and turning to hand it to the quarterback, the ball is moving backward continuously but it is not immediately leaving the snapper's hands.

It can leave the snapper's hands as immediately by that means as by any other method of exchange. What's the difference whether he hands it to the quarterback between his own legs or anywhere else? It's still a hands-to-hands exchange.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

It can leave the snapper's hands as immediately by that means as by any other method of exchange. What's the difference whether he hands it to the quarterback between his own legs or anywhere else? It's still a hands-to-hands exchange.

The difference is that picking it up, turning around and handing it back to the quarterback is not considered immediate.

You want it to be but it's not and I've never heard a rule interpreter say that it is.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Welpe

The difference is that picking it up, turning around and handing it back to the quarterback is not considered immediate.

You want it to be but it's not and I've never heard a rule interpreter say that it is.

You're reading it as "picking it up...pause...turning around...pause...and handing it". Why couldn't the action be done in 1 motion?