Kicks into the endzone: rationale

[JugglingReferee]

Ya'll should try officiating a Canadian game. The kicked ball is live in the end zone. 50% bigger field. Umpires signal TDs.

I'm not sure all of you could do it!

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Ya'll should try officiating a Canadian game. The kicked ball is live in the end zone. 50% bigger field. Umpires signal TDs.

I'm not sure all of you could do it!

do yourself a favor, don't go there.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by ajmc

do yourself a favor, don't go there.

[Robert Goodman]

I'm just trying to remember whether there was ever a time in NCAA when any kick, or certain types of kick, in the air, or touching the ground or a player, in R's end zone was dead. I've almost got my history notes dug out -- preparing to move stuff back into the newly carpeted bedroom.

For quite a while after the end line was installed, a kick touching the ground or a player past the end line was not dead. They used to chalk the side lines a little past the end lines to remind people of that. I think it was that way for over 30 years, which means it must've been that way in Fed for a while too, unless that was one of the Fed changed on first diverging its rules from NCAA's. Must've been so in NFL too.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I'm not sure all of you could do it!

Oh I could...I just wouldn't want to.

[Forksref]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I'm not sure all of you could do it!

...or want to. 110 yd fields, 3 downs, everyone in motion....doesn't even resemble football.