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Old 11-26-2004, 11:10 PM
pudley4 pudley4 is offline
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Default Re: Texas vs Texas A&M WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

I think what they say happened is:
<ul type="square">[*]A&amp;M "blocks" the kick (although a squirrel could have blocked that kick [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )[*]A&amp;M then picks up the ball outside of the end zone, thus establishing posession.[*]The ball is still live, since in college you can return a PAT try for 2 pts.[*]A&amp;M then loses possession of the ball, it goes into the endzone and is recovered by A&amp;M.[*]Because they established possession outside of the endzone, it cannot be ruled a touchback; it's therefore a safety.[/list]As JBB said, on a PAT try, the safety only counts as a single point (not sure why though, since the kicking team has the opportunity to score 2 pts by getting into the endzone so it's not like they're being rewarded by getting extra, unavailable pts...)
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