1 Point Safety? WTF, CFL Rules?

[Journeyman]

I have never seen this one... The dumbest rule I have ever seen :nono5:

 

[gopherbob]

they explained it and i still don't understand.

 

[PO69]

It has to do with the same idea that occured with Leon Lett a few years ago.


A&M touched the ball in the field of play NOT in the end zone then jumped on it in the end zone and were tackled thus a safety.

Remember Leon Lett touching that ball back on Thankgiving about 10 years ago and thus giving Miami possession when he fumbled it?

The A&M players should haver never touched the ball or at least not fumbled it into the end zone.

 

[RobFunk]

that got that new commercial kid

"dream on.... safer the year ....sebber boba cow.... and teeper for the year"

kid has all types of new words to sell whips

 

[Journeyman]

The Leon Lett play was somewhat different... the play made no sense, the kicker kicked the FG and hit his own players...I think the interpretation of the rule by the Refs is incorrect here...I won't be surprised if we hear later they blew this call...

 

[PO69]

Well they way taht they saw it, it was ruled correctly. But the ball did hit TEXAS first thus voiding the safety. But if you dont factor that in that it hit Texas, then it would be a safety

 

[LEYKIS101]

Wow, and to think all this time I was thinking a safety was 2 pts.

 

[trytrytry]

what is this thread about? I did not see any 1 point safety in the Texas Box score?

 

[michael777]

It has to do with the same idea that occured with Leon Lett a few years ago.


A&M touched the ball in the field of play NOT in the end zone then jumped on it in the end zone and were tackled thus a safety.

Remember Leon Lett touching that ball back on Thankgiving about 10 years ago and thus giving Miami possession when he fumbled it?

The A&M players should haver never touched the ball or at least not fumbled it into the end zone.

thanks for bringing the leon lett play up :cry4: i lost 4,400 on that play,i'm still crying about it :cry4:

 

[gijoe]

i missed part of it but if the rule is true, than it make sense. what they said was. tex tries extra point but it was blocked and defense attempted to run it back the other way( run it other way is 2 points) but got tackled in end zone, so it was 1 point safety. i never heard of it before, but was player trying to run it back the other way. i didnt see that

 

[TheGeneral+]

I was not aware either. The learning never stops here.


:digit:

 

[Journeyman]

i missed part of it but if the rule is true, than it make sense. what they said was. tex tries extra point but it was blocked and defense attempted to run it back the other way( run it other way is 2 points) but got tackled in end zone, so it was 1 point safety. i never heard of it before, but was player trying to run it back the other way. i didnt see that

If yyou "SEE" what happened you may understand :nono5:

 

[KennyB]

I always thought the rule in college for 1 point is when a player takes the fumble back the length of the field. I was shaking my head during the game when they called it.

 

[ChuckSims]

The rule was called correctly. What made it confusing was the idiot announcer who kept saying the ball is dead, it can't be a safety. Then he really made himself look silly when he said they were not going for 2, not realizing that Tex A&M had picked up the ball and indeed was trying run it back for a 2 pt conversion. It does not matter who the ball hit, Tex or Tex A&M. A&M picked the ball up and started to run attempting for the 2 points. When that happens the rule is the same as if it was a regular play with the safety being 1 pt instead of 2. A&M then fumbled the ball back into their endzone, when they fell on it, the result of the play was a safety(1 pt) being rewarded to Texas.

 

[gijoe]

thank you chuck. going to win a few bucks from this rule. not to many people know about it. so he did start running it out and fumbled in back in end zone. wow a rule i never herd of

 

[Journeyman]

On the replay I still didn't see him running it out...of course the rule makes sense IF the defense tries to score but in this case I don't think so...

 

[Fishhead]

The rule was called correctly. What made it confusing was the idiot announcer who kept saying the ball is dead, it can't be a safety. Then he really made himself look silly when he said they were not going for 2, not realizing that Tex A&M had picked up the ball and indeed was trying run it back for a 2 pt conversion. It does not matter who the ball hit, Tex or Tex A&M. A&M picked the ball up and started to run attempting for the 2 points. When that happens the rule is the same as if it was a regular play with the safety being 1 pt instead of 2. A&M then fumbled the ball back into their endzone, when they fell on it, the result of the play was a safety(1 pt) being rewarded to Texas.

EXACTLY!

THANK YOU!

 

[Journeyman]

To make matters worse the Refs did a horrible job of explaining it at the time...