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Onside Kick?
What do they mean when they say onside kick? What is an offside Kick? :confused:
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Season end quickly for you this year?
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An offside kick occurs when a member of the kicking team is the first to possess the ball and that kicking team member was beyond the line where the ball was when it was kicked - this results in possession by the receiving team. |
Ask the coaches and common taters. :)
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I'm just happy no one said "onsides" or "offsides" in the thread. ;)
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It's a term that's never appeared in the rule book, with two exceptions noted below, but was coaching shorthand to refer to the recovery of the ball by an onside player as explained by MD Longhorn upthread. The usage makes no sense when applied to free kicks as today, because if there are offside players of team K, the play's not going to stand up anyway. The term was most useful as applied to recovery by onside players of kicks during general play, as is still legal in Canadian football. In Canadian football rule books, there is one use of the phrase regarding responsibility of officials in "`onside kick' situations", recognizing it as a kind of coaching shorthand that officials would be expected to understand, even though not defined in the rule book.
Similarly, when, fairly recently, the NFL adopted different penalties for free kicks out of bounds under different circumstances, they differentiated between other kicks and an "onside kick", which appears to be implicitly defined (though I'm not sure it is) as one that doesn't go at any time more than 20 yards beyond the previous spot. |
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Yeah but they didn't book Rush!:(
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Notice the Referee properly read the play and move from his spot to watch roughing the kicker/holder to a spot to be in line with the kicker to judge on the legality of the 2 in-motion players' onside status. Great job by R#22! LJ #29 throws the Restraining Zone flag as he does not know if those two players are onside. Once the crew shares all information, they pick up the flag and award Team A a new series. |
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The even older rule (American & Canadian) was that the continuity of downs was interrupted when the ball was kicked in such a way as to give the other team "fair and equal chance" to recover it. |
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