American Interp of Canadian Boys Thread

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What kind of game you playin up there?

It's a game a lot closer to the Rugby rules that both our sports originated from

The reason that I started the thread in the first place is that it is legal for an onside player to recover and advance a scrimmage kick provided that some critical criteria are met.

In the course of doing that the differences between the two kicking games start to really come out. In particular, our rule book states that short kicks coming down into a crowd are to be killed in flight with the ball awarded to the receiving team where the ball hits the ground - not pro ball but CFL is to community ball as NFL is to federation bal.

HossHumard puts it well when he says that the receiving team must play the ball after a scrimmage kick. The 5 yard RADIUS 'halo' around the player is a restraining zone to ensure they get an opportunity to field the ball without getting pummled. Having said that, the same collection of restricted players who can recover and advance a scrimmage kick can be inside that halo (so...all B players and any 'onside' A players).

As for 'gaggle', I think it's a neat word and tend to group all kinds of things into 'gaggle' when I don't know what the proper plural form is.

eg. 'A Gaggle of Hillbillies'