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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: A rules question
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Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 12:01:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 12:01:59 1984
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> I think I read this a long time ago, but I'm not sure that it's true, and
> if it is true, how come I've never seen it?
> 
> Supposedly, if a team takes a fair catch, the rules allow it a free kick
> from the point of the catch.  This implies the following situation:
> 
> Team A punts from their own 5 (say), and team B signals a fair catch at
> the 40.  Using the above rule, they take a free kick, put the ball on a
> tee, and kick it through the uprights for a field goal.  Since it's a
> free kick, team A can't block it.
> 
> 
> Is this all bull, or what?
> 
> Wayne Citrin
> (ucbvax!citrin)

I saw a "free" after-fair-catch field goal attempt on an "NFL week in review"
highlight show a number of years ago (early 70's?).  I believe it was the
Bears who kicked it.  I don't remember who the kicker was, who they were
playing, or whether it was successful.  I mostly remember being surprised
that such a rule existed.

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