May 25, 2018

John Harbaugh's Idea to Save the Kickoff: Baltimore Ravens head coach has a strange proposal to make kickoffs less dangerous: Give the kicking team one point if it kicks the ball through the uprights, but let a defender try a late leap to block it. Missed attempts could be returned, fly out of bounds or hit the ground in the end zone (which is an automatic touchback under a 2018 rule change).

posted by rcade to football at 04:32 PM - 4 comments

This is an intriguing idea, but wouldn't it end up creating a rouge element in American society?

posted by beaverboard at 05:17 PM on May 25, 2018

In Canadian football players have to take a knee (kneel) to concede a rouge.

Is that going to be an issue in the U.S.A.?

posted by tommybiden at 05:50 PM on May 25, 2018

I like this rule. I hated to fill in on special teams in HS due to the blindside nature of that element of the game.

posted by FLsportsman at 09:26 PM on May 26, 2018

This is an intriguing idea, but wouldn't it end up creating a rouge element in American society?

I see what you did there, but it took me a while.

posted by rcade at 08:15 AM on May 27, 2018

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