2 fouls on scrimmage kick play

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

So you're telling me that on a punt return, a muffed catch attempt is an offside pass?

Sorry, wasn't thinking. If it didn't go to another player, it wasn't considered a pass and wasn't penalized IIRC. That went long before the era I had in mind. But until some time in the 1970s, if you muffed it forward and another player recovered it, it was an offside loose ball and penalized as offside pass regardless of whether the player recovering it was onside.

So now the PFT-PAP business covers cases where the player accidentally knocks it to himself?

Robert