Proper Enforcement

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Rich

Did anyone ever actually *ask* that?

In televised NCAA games, I used to see the referee look at & point to the bench, so I assumed that's what was being asked. I think if you hear the coach yelling, "Kick receive [or return] team!", you can assume that's what their team wants.

In children's games played by mostly-Fed rules, it would not be odd to have the choice to kick off taken. For many of these teams, a kickoff is a 50-50 ball, and for others they would like to kick off to avoid running up the score, even though they'd just been scored on.

The choice to kick off still (or recently) being a reasonable option in Canadian football has been discussed here.