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Offline J12

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Missed Field Goal Attempt
« on: July 22, 2014, 04:38:37 PM »
      Admittedly, this is an absurd question, but I'm curious. If a team attempts a field goal from it's own endzone and misses, where is the ball then placed?
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Re: Missed Field Goal Attempt
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 05:56:29 PM »
Previous spot, assuming B allows it to roll dead. But I don't believe for a minute any team, under any circumstance, would attempt a FG from its own end zone.
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Re: Missed Field Goal Attempt
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 08:06:10 AM »
But, what if a team signs 'Gus' from the 1976 Disney movie who can kick 100 yard field goals?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074599/

just teaseing :-)
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Missed Field Goal Attempt
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 09:02:01 AM »
Previous spot could never be in the end zone. It returns to where the ball is snapped not where it was kicked from.


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Re: Missed Field Goal Attempt
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2014, 03:56:25 PM »
Would it really be given to team B at the previous spot? The 2010 rules, which is the latest book I have for NFL, only lists two cases: spot of the kick inside B's 20, and outside B's 20. In the first case team B gets the ball at B-20, in the second at the spot of the kick. I don't see an exception for when the spot of the kick is in team A's end zone. This seems to me to say that it would be a touchdown for team B. Then again, the rule for a touchdown does not list this kind of a case...

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Re: Missed Field Goal Attempt
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 03:55:08 AM »
Kalle is correct...under NFL rules, missed FG's go back to the spot of the kick unless the spot of the kick is inside B's 20 in which case it goes 20.

This situation isn't clearly spelled out in the rule book. If I were a betting man, I would assume that it would be treated as a safety.
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