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'Amused to Death said:
I'd say deliberately breaking the rule and using the consequence to your advantage, fully aware of the penalty, is good strategy. Breaking rules and hoping to get away with it is cheating.
From the purely pedantic standpoint, :goodposting:
 
'Amused to Death said:
I'd say deliberately breaking the rule and using the consequence to your advantage, fully aware of the penalty, is good strategy. Breaking rules and hoping to get away with it is cheating.
From the purely pedantic standpoint, :goodposting:
I think that's good, but I would adjust it a little. To interfere in the end zone to avoid a TD is good play. But in that case, the rule defines the penalty and so you can choose to break the rule and so accept the penalty. Cheating is when you do something which is totally outside the rules and therefore, no penalty has been established. So the holding would not be cheating, because the rule specifies the penalty for holding. Now, the NFL constantly adjusts the rules, based on situations which arise in games. They may choose to do so about this situation; but as it was, it was not cheating.
 
'The_Man said:
I was thinking last night, what if the 49ers grabbed the punter and tried to drag him out of the endzone? You'd have to think he'd be able to get down on the ground, before crossing the goal line, but it would be wild to see. Also - would the Ravens O linemen have fought to keep him in the end zone? I can just see the 49ers and Ravens playing tug of war with the punter's body as the rope.
That would have been hilarious... if he was moving forward, well, forward progress wouldn't have been stopped, eh?As far a genius goes, they should have used the Polish Goal Line Defense.
or, linked from that article, the Polish punt formation:
Having just watched his Vikings lose, 10-9, Lynn was rankled by the sight of what the Eagles called their "Polish punt team." In a most unusual formation, designed to prevent a blocked kick or a long runback, Ryan sent 14 men onto the field for a crucial last-minute punt. At the worst, the expected penalty for too many men on the field would set the Eagles back 5 yards but drain precious seconds from the clock.To the surprise of the Eagles, no flag was forthcoming and the safest punt in NFL history was executed without mishap. Was Ryan sheepish about employing such a questionable tactic? Hardly. When Al Meltzer asked during the taping of Ryan's weekly television show about the propriety of having 14 men on the field, the coach did note a flaw in the strategy. "There should have been 15," he snapped.
 
I was thinking last night, what if the 49ers grabbed the punter and tried to drag him out of the endzone? You'd have to think he'd be able to get down on the ground, before crossing the goal line, but it would be wild to see. Also - would the Ravens O linemen have fought to keep him in the end zone? I can just see the 49ers and Ravens playing tug of war with the punter's body as the rope.
That would have been hilarious... if he was moving forward, well, forward progress wouldn't have been stopped, eh?As far a genius goes, they should have used the Polish Goal Line Defense.
Yea, that wouldn't have worked because.....oh I don't know, they would have been flagged as they defense.
 

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