Kickoff Confusion

In what world can you touch the ball in the field of play, let it go into the endzone and it not count as a safety if you get tackled in the endzone. Mind boggling.

 

That’s what I was telling my son. He agreed.

 

New kickoff rules?

 

A kickoff is a live ball once it travels 10 yards. That was the rule. Now, I think you have to land it in the 'kick zone'. But it's still live once it is in the zone. I don't think it has to be fielded anymore to be a touch back. I think a lot of the reason teams just kick out the back of the end zone is because the new rules are a bit strange to follow and you only give up the 30 yard line anyway. It's kinda like peewee punt rules in a way. Just walk it off.

 

Kickoff confusion
I can't get no relief.
Business man, come drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth.

No reason to get excited.


MISUNDERSTOOD LYRICS

 

I still don’t understand how that was not a safety. In the grand scheme of things though, they really need to go back to the old kick off rules and move the kickers back 5 more yards for returns to be more possible. These new kickoff are just downright boring.

 

While it still makes no sense, they did explain the rule during the broadcast. They essentially said that regardless of what a player does with the ball in the "safe/free zone", if it ends up in the end zone, it's a touch back to the 20 yd line. Not sure why this is the new rule but it is. Now about that flat earth thing, does flat vs spherical planetary shape alter the new thought that the goal line stretches around the world and that's why players can leap clearly out of bounds in the air outside of the end zone zone and never land in the end zone but somehow catch a piece of the orange pylon and still have it count as a TD? The 2 feet in bounds rule doesn't apply either. Josh Dobbs must also consult with the Commish's Office.