One of our crews had something similar this past weekend when K went for a field goal with 1 sec left in the half but it is blocked. Apparently neither coach knew or bothered to teach his players that field goal attempts are just scrimmage kicks that can score 3 points and they reacted as if it was a blocked try. The ball lay on the ground motionless for about 3 seconds but a K player was walking towards straight towards it and starting to bend over. K2 picks it up but then starts heading for the sideline. One of the coaches had realized what was going on and was yelling, "It's a live ball!" K2 then runs in for a touchdown but mulitple K and R players had left their sidelines and entered the field, believeing it was halftime, so the officials called offsetting illegal participation fouls and made them re-kick. Kick was good. They couldn't use the motionless with no-one trying to recover it as the player was walking, albiet slowly, towards the ball obviously going to pick it up. I want to get the film of this for taining purposes.
McC
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Tue Oct 22, 2002, 02:21pm
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