Hello everyone, I’m from Milan and I’m a former Rugby player, now I’m interested in football. I already know the rules roughly but I have some doubts about it.
While this is primarily a High School rules thread, I'll try to answer these for you.....
Touchback or safety
- An offensive player (Team A) is tackled near the opposing endzone, he fumbles the ball and it ends up rolling directly out of the opposing endzone, (Team B) this is a touchback?
Yes. Although the NFL will be exploring changes to this rule in the off-season.
- An offensive player (Team A) tries to pass the ball to another offensive player but the ball is intercepted on the fly by a defender. The ball then bounces off the defender who tried to intercept the ball and ends up outside his own endzone (Team B) I think it’s touchback?
Not enough clarity here to make a ruling.....
- You say the ball was intercepted, then say it bounces off the player wo tried to intercept the ball. Was the ball ever possessed by the defender?
- What do you mean by "outside the endzone"? At the 2 yard line? Out of bounds?
- A player (Team A) is tackled near his own endzone, he fumbles the ball and it ends rolling directly out of his own endzone, safety?
Yes*
*However, there could be an instance where it is a touchback.
Kicks in endzone
- A kickoff, not touched by anyone, goes into endzone, the kicking team can recover the ball for a touchdown, on the fly or once it has grounded in endzone or would it be a touchback?
If a free kick is not touched by the receiving team, it is a dead ball and touchback once it touches the ground in the end zone
- A kickoff but, in this case, touched or muffed by receveing team, when touchback or touchdown?
Yes
- The same but with an untouched punt, TB or TD?
Touchback
- The same but with a touched punt by receiving team, TB or TD?
Touchdown
- These are a little more special cases. Muffed kickoff lands near the endzone, there one of the KT dives on it, the ball, which was still moving, pushed further by the dive ends in endzone, where the KT takes it from the ground while still moving or takes it on the fly, in this case TD or TB?
As described, this is a touchdown.
- The same but in this case it is a muffed punt.
As described, this is a touchdown.
- What I didn’t understand is this:
The kicking team can recover a kickoff and a punt, in the first case if it exceeds 10 yards or muffed by the defense, in the second case only if it was first touched by the defense, but the team can not advance the ball, that is only recover it. If the KT did not take possession of the ball but advance it in a sneaky way, I mean if he pushed the ball with his feet or legs, or if he pushed it by diving over it and then retrieve it in endzone for a touchdown, would it be legal? I imagine a situation like this:
Team A punts a ball to Team B that touches It but fails to catch it, Team A then volleyball, without catching it, to an other of the Team A that takes the ball in endzone, would it be touchdown?
It is illegal to bat or punch a loose ball towards their opponent's goal line. On a kickoff (free kick), the receiving team would be awarded the ball 1st and 10 after a 10 yard penalty assessed from the spot of the foul. On a punt (scrimmage kick) it would be first touching.
So you can push a kickoff or a punt, or is deadball at first touching?
As noted above, it's an illegal bat and the receiving team on a free kick (kick off) and first touching on a scrimmage kick (punt)
Rule set: NFL.
Scuse me for my English.
Thanks.
Glad to help....
Welcome to the forum from Italy !!