Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 15185639)

Why "don't do it again"?

Is it illegal to mark a spot? Only thing I see is that tee's are against to rules in assisting field goal kicks. I don't see shit about marking where you want to place the ball.

Originally Posted by chiefsfan987 (Post 15185652)

I tend to agree, but if anyone was to get screwed on semantics it would be the Chiefs. Did he sit the ball on the marker? Then you could probably argue it was a tee even though we all know something the size of a dime isn't going to do anything to help your kick.

Originally Posted by DanT (Post 15184821)

Here's an old SI article about Stenerud that mentions the field goal attempt made with the ball placed three-yards deep in his own endzone, a 113-yard attempt. https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/11/0...a-strange-game
(In college, the goal posts had been "in the back" of the end zone since 1927. The NFL didn't move them there until 1974.) The article doesn't say what the rules were for a missed field goal. Even today, a field goal attempt can be recovered and returned within the field of play, but maybe in the old days, the field goal attempt was treated more or less like a punt, so missing one wasn't as bad for the kicking team, in terms of where the opponent gets to take over the ball as the current rules make it.

There's an interesting rule in NFL and high school football regarding fair catches, where a team that has just made a "fair catch" can execute a free kick (either as a punt or as a place kick) that can yield a 3-point Field Goal. The nice thing about it is that the defense has to start 10 yards away, so it yields a nice little advantage to a team like the Chiefs that has a terrific placekicker like Harrison Butker. We might end up winning a game one day because of that rule. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick

Originally Posted by siberian khatru (Post 15184624)

Lane Kiffin

Originally Posted by A Salt Weapon (Post 15185661)

We have a similar odd rule in high school here, if you miss a field goal but it goes into the end zone it’s a touchback for the other team. Actually works out pretty well because if you miss a long field goal the other team gets it at the 20 instead of the spot of the kick.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia entry on "Touchback"

A special rule applies in college football and the NFL with regard to field goal attempts. If a missed field goal occurs in these leagues, the spot at which the non-kicking team receives possession of the ball depends on the spot from which the ball had been kicked. In NCAA football, the ball will be placed either on the 20 or the line of scrimmage of the play in which the attempt was made; in the NFL, either the 20 or the place from which the ball was kicked. (In either case, the ball goes to the spot which is further from the goal line.) The purpose of this rule is to discourage low-percentage, long-range field goal attempts and to deemphasize the advantage which can accrue when only one team has a kicker who has a reasonable possibility of success from a great distance. In American high school football (except in Texas), the missed field goal, regardless of where attempted on the field, results in a touchback as long as the attempt breaks the plane of the goal line, and in arena football, the field goal is treated as if it were a punt.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 15184805)

Really bizarre. The way he picked it up, feels like he placed something. Do I care? Not particularly. Just don't do it again. Did he do this on the previous 2 game winners? I don't think he did. So why that one time?

Originally Posted by Rasputin (Post 15184651)

It's like he patted the turf as in thanking the Football God's for it going through. It's probably a kicker holders superstition to thank the Football God's.

Originally Posted by Valiant (Post 15185582)

He popped his hand down to get up.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 15186027)

What's really bizarre is that we're gonna pretend like there isn't video of the dude using a marker and that an NFL holder didn't flat out say that some people use 'em, some don't. It's clearly something that happens in the NFL.

I mean c'mon fellas - this seems pretty settled doesn't it?

The kid uses some kind of little marker to identify where he's gonna place the ball. He picked it up after the kick. There's nothing illegal, nefarious or untoward about it.

We had a thread on CP where we all LEARNED something. That never happens. Why can't we just take the win here and move on?

Originally Posted by Jodi's Bareback (Post 15184460)

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 15184596)

Wow.

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One of the strongest legs in NFL history and he didn't make it to the end zone. He's probably 15 yards short on that one - hard to believe he got as much of it as he's capable of. Kicking into the wind probably didn't help much.

What dumb ass STs coach said "yeah, he can hit that?" Like, we know every game what Butker's capable of going either direction because he and Toub go out there, kick the hell out of a few balls and see what they do.

There's no WAY Janikowksi was nailing 'em from 76 heading that direction in warm-ups. What a stupid waste of time and I wish it would've been returned just to make the Raiders look like the unprepared assholes they are.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 15184265)

Look at his left hand IMMEDIATELY after the ball is kicked. He's pinching his fingers together before he ever touches the field with his right hand. It's a gesture, it's something in his ritual. There's nothing in his left hand.