What's with "Half the distance to the goal?"

[ClevelandBronco]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

so if you get a penalty equal to or greater than your yard position ........ safety?

Sure. That's the way this conversation is going. And offside on the defense on their own four is a touchdown. However, the team on defense gets the ball if they commit a personal foul on their own four because that would place the ball out of the back of the end zone and we all know what happens then. (Though we're not at all sure why it happens except that balls used to be precious when the world wasn't in color yet.)