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Offline Uncleshants@gmail.com

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Out of bounds kickoff ruling
« on: October 21, 2018, 09:03:38 PM »
So I am watching the CIN vs. Kc game. Kc made what seemed to be a perfect kick where the ball stopped on the 10 noteven touching the out of bounds. I repeat. The ball stopped in play. Bengals player picked it up with his feet out of bounds and the cheifs got penalized. Maybe i read the rule wrong. But to me, that seemed like a great kick and the bengals should be on the 10. And suddenly they arent and it was a penalty. Is this right? If so, I am moving on to european futbol. Cause that was CRAP. The rule even says 'if not touched by an opposing teammate.' He touched it to make it out of bounds. Wtf?

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Re: Out of bounds kickoff ruling
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2018, 10:38:51 PM »
Have fun with futbol then, because this is a correct call and is the same in NCAA. The player is out of bounds when he touches it, making it a loose ball out of bounds. In order for this to not be a foul in either code, a receiving team player must touch the ball before it goes out of bounds.

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Re: Out of bounds kickoff ruling
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2018, 02:23:49 AM »
This is the same situation if a fumble is loose near a sideline and a player whose foot touches the sideline touches the ball. The ball becomes dead out of bounds.

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Re: Out of bounds kickoff ruling
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2018, 11:51:58 PM »
If only more players knew the rules.  I see this a number of times in the year where we have a kick that is rolling near the sideline and all the receiver needs to do is step out of bounds and then touch the ball to get a  ^flag for a kick out of bounds.  But no, they end up picking the ball up and then immediately getting tackled.

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Re: Out of bounds kickoff ruling
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2018, 12:26:25 PM »
In 2000, the NFHS tweaked rule 6-1-8 to read that free kicks going OOB are a foul if untouched by the receiving team. This replaced the prior rule that stated "...if not LAST touched by the receiving team. A free kick to the middle of the field with several muffs was then a foul if K was last to touch. As with any rule change, came a lobster crate of case plays. One such was to state that if the kick had yet to break the sideline plane and was touched by OOB R, R caused the ball to be OOB and would take the ball there. An easy call for officials, as in 5 man, there would be two on each sideline. Seems to make more sense.

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