To Beanbag or not to beanbag?

[JugglingReferee]

I'm with wwcfoa43 on this one.

Here in Canada, points of application for fouls committed while the ball is in flight on a punt or kick-off, are applied form the point of possession. Knowing that spot is our responsibility. You either make a mental note of that spot, or drop a beanbag.

Here's a sitch: a short kick-off by a team down by 2 points with under a minute to go. The kicking team first touches the ball after it travels 10 yards and bats it out of bounds, towards the other team's end zone, 10 yards further than the spot of first touching.

Result: 1D/10 for the kicking team at the spot of first touching, and not where it went out of bounds. Dropping a bean bag at that spot is excellent work - just have the next scrimmage from the bean bag.

I wonder why in the pros a bb is used (CFL and NFL). Hmm....