re: Stanford outscored Oregon 31-7 over the final 17 minutes + OT

Why didn’t Oregon kneel it?

They would have been punting on their opponent’s side of the 50 with under ten seconds to play. The punt itself would have expired the remaining time.

Not taking a knee was objectively a terrible decision. You are FAR more likely to fumble on a run than something going wrong on a 30 quick kick.

Previous thread joke...

You wouldn’t have punted to anyone. You would have kicked it 20 yards out of the end zone into the 5th row and Stanford would have, at most, 2-4 seconds left from their own 20.

It was dumb. Every kneeling scenario apart from a last second punt blocked and returned for a TD (which has literally happened twice in the last 50 years of college or NFL football) results in time running out or Stanford getting the ball on their side of the field with under 10 seconds. The ONLY way they get the ball with enough time to score is if you turn it over trying to get the first.

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Ducks are going to score hundreds of thousands of points next week.

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Nooooooooooo! We're looking for an emotionally drained and deflated Ducks team waddling into Berkeley next week.

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It was the right call, the rule is just stupid and frequently ignored by the refs when a player catches the ball in the end zone.

Essentially, the pylon is only “out of bounds” in certain scenarios. When a player catches a pass standing in the end zone and part of his foot is touching the pylon it’s NEVER considered out of bounds. Only when a player is running into the end zone, and only if it isn’t the ball touching the pylon, is it considered equivalent to the out of bounds line.

It’s a silly, arbitrary rule

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It's a weird set of seemingly conflicting rules. I believe these are the relevant rules:

RULE 2
Definitions

SECTION 12. Lines
Goal Lines
ARTICLE 2. The goal line at each end of the field of play runs between the
sidelines and is part of the vertical plane that separates the end zone from
the field of play. This plane extends between and includes the pylons. The
two goal lines are 100 yards apart. The entire goal line is in the end zone.

SECTION 31. Field Areas

End Zone
ARTICLE 3. a. The end zone at each end of the field is the rectangle
defined by the goal line, sidelines and end line.
b. The goal line and goal line pylons are in the end zone.


RULE 4
Ball in Play, Dead Ball, Out of Bounds

SECTION 2. Out of Bounds
Player Out of Bounds
ARTICLE 1. a. A player is out of bounds when any part of his person
touches anything, other than another player or game official, on or outside
a boundary line (Rule 2-27-15) (A.R. 4-2-1-I and II).
b. An out-of-bounds player who becomes airborne remains out of bounds
until he touches the ground in bounds without simultaneously being
out of bounds.
c. A player who touches a pylon is out of bounds.


So if you touch the ball to the pylon, you have reached the end zone, but if you touch any part of your body on the pylon before the ball crosses the goal line, you are out of bounds.

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Ive watched hundreds of thousands of football games.

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Let’s check that math to see how full of shite you are.....
In a week’s time you could really watch 10 full games. Let just assume you are a badass with 2 TVs so we’ll double the Saturday and Sunday numbers to give you about 16 games per week.

Thursday night game
Friday night game
Saturday 11am, 230, 6pm 9pm
Sunday noon, 3pm, 7pm
Monday night game

So 16 games per week during college season would be about 224 games. Tack on another 21 or so games of nfl after college regular season. I guess you could grab about 5-6 conference championships and another 40 games counting the bowls and nfl playoffs. So we are at roughly 291 games you could watch live in a single year. frick it, let’s round up to 300 games a year in case you like high school or preseason games. It would only take you over 333 YEARS to watch 100,000 games and we could at least double that to get “hundreds of thousands”. But then again maybe you catch a lot of replays.

#SarkAfterDark