Is it Touchback if Kicking team gets ball with Blitz-event?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:22 pm
Situation: Blitz-event is rolled on Kick-off event table and Kicking team gets player under the ball and then catch it. Will this be Touchback or not?
Rulebook said
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I would say it is not Touchback.
Rulebook said
I would not say the ball "landed safely" when it lands to the hand of the Kicking team player.A kick-off must land safely in the receiving team’s half of the pitch.
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But ball hasn't get "off the pitch" or "into the kicking team’s half of the pitch".If the ball deviates or bounces off the pitch or across the Line of Scrimmage into the kicking team’s
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I would say it is not Touchback.