Offensive safety

[Texas Aggie]

This is why Team A/B is the proper terminology.

Team A could score a safety in one of a number of ways: change of possession where the ball becomes dead behind Team B's goal line, and Team B is charged with the impetus for it being there. Example -- interception caught by Team B at the Team B's 10 yard line, and the runner decides for whatever reason to run back toward his end zone. He's either tackled in the EZ or fumbles the ball back behind the line and out of bounds. Remember, though, that inside the 5 (I think in both codes) the exception is for momentum.

This would be extremely rare, but it has happened.

This DID happen in a game involving SMU back in the SWC days: kickoff to start the game, SMU kicks it right toward an upback for the receiving team; ball hits him square, then rebounds back toward the goal line of the kicking team. There's a mad chase for the ball and it ends up dead behind the goal line, but not in the receiving team's possession. Result: safety. Explain that one!