Illegal motion

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by ajmc

No need to unnecessarily complicate things, the fact is there is no such place as "no man's land".

Maybe not officially defined however it is possible by rule to be either a lineman, a back or neither. There is only one player legally allowed to be there and that is a player in position to take a hand to hand snap. "No man's land" is this small area of limbo, that while many officials don't strictly enforce, does exist per the rules.

[whitehat]

I have been in stripes since 1982, and when I am blessed to don a black hat occasionally instead of white I do help wide outs with a foot or a point and an occassional nod. But, I have always wondered why players simply cannot look inside at the ball and line up correctly; especially when they are on a yard "Line." How hard can that be?...I guess we have spoiled kids so much in every other area we might as well spoon feed them on the FB field too ;-)