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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee (Post 691372)

Also, a ball would never come to rest in Canada.

Yeah, because those winds are murder!

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Originally Posted by BktBallRef (Post 691423)

I doub he knew he could run with it or that he could have kicked it again.

Agreed.

Have had K grab the ball, get the deer in the headlights look, then put the ball on the ground.....

....followed by R picking the ball up and running........

Each situation is a cluster because not many players know what to do with a kick recovered by K behind the NZ.

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Originally Posted by whitehat (Post 691405)

We had a similar one last wekend as well. Punt was partially blocked, rebounded in the air about 5 yards beyond the NZ where K caught it. Our very alert HL blew it dead as soon as he caught it then had a look of momentary terror wondering if he should have blown it dead. As R , I wandered over to my HL to be sure what we had.

2 questions came to mind that we answered quickly and I believe correctly:

1. Did the partially blocked kick by R allow K to advance the kick. answer is "no" becasue touching of low scrimmage kick by R in or behind the nuetrual zone is ignored. So K still cannot advance since he caught it beyond the NZ.

2. did this play have the possiblitlity for kick catching interference if any R was in postion to catch this partially blocked kick? We said "yes" and decided quickly that there were no Rs in the area.

So, we had a partially blocked punt and "a lot of nothin" quickly afterward.

comments or quibles?;)

Your ruling and thinking were quite correct.

One tiny quibble: touching by R is ignored if it occurs in or behind the expanded neutral zone.

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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman (Post 691436)

Yeah, because those winds are murder!

I do believe we had some hurricane effect winds here the other day. They near blew me over!

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Originally Posted by asdf (Post 691375)

He could also have kicked it again.

Okay, I probably missed it when looking for it but could someone please give me a reference for this. :o

The scenario we passed around at our association meeting last night was:

K punts.

R muffs the punt beyond the neutral zone.

Ball goes back behind the NZ and K recovers and ...

Doubtful R is going to be happy, regardless what K does at that point (unless they kick it again).

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Originally Posted by cdoug (Post 691589)

Okay, I probably missed it when looking for it but could someone please give me a reference for this. :o

Sure, 6-2-1.

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Originally Posted by mbyron (Post 691596)

Sure, 6-2-1.

Thanks. I missed that little part that said "before team possession has changed" and was thinking that it was like a forward pass, I guess. :o