re: Football rules that make no sense

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where would you put the football? where the fumble occurred?

I really don't mind the rule, if you can't hold on to the ball around the end zone you don't deserve a TD. It would be unfair to award a person a TD if he fumbled the ball out of the end zone.

if you give a good alternate I could agree with you.

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If a player is running for the pylon, and extends it and it slips from their grasp just before reaching it, and goes out of the endzone, it's a touchback. if it goes out before the pylon, it's spotted where it went out of bounds. seems like a huge penalty. I'm not saying that a TD should be given, but why should the team lose possession? If the other team recovers in play in the endzone, i'm good with a touchback.

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this rule makes perfect sense, all a kicker have to do is get good at kicking it out at the 1 yard line on each kickoff and it would change the game completely.

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I'm not saying there should be no penalty on kickoffs, but why is there no penalty for a punt? Presumably the kickoff rule is written so teams can't be pinned deep on a kickoff, but why is it okay to do that on a punt?

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its a good rule IMO, what about personal fouls on a 3rd and 40 would that be just as bad.

there some things you as a player have to learn not to do, and holding a receiver on 3rd and long is of them

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Personal fouls are pretty big offenses, defensive holding can be a slight grab of a jersey. I think it should be a spot foul and replay the down, but no automatic first down.