Re: Defering in the NFL

"Harold Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 2003-11-13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> >    >I never said there was anything in the rules about a lateral,
> >    >forward or backward. Someone else mentioned it and I replied. A lot
> >    >of people believe that it is against the rules, to use an
> >    >underhanded pass for a forward pass, even though it is perfectly
> >    >legal. At least once year we all hear someone, usually a fan,
> >    >shouting about a forward lateral, and how stupid, blind, unethical,
> >    >ect. we are for not calling it.
> >
> > Well, there was a time in Canadian football when a forward pass was legal
> > only if thrown overhand, and then a longer period when a forward pass
> > terminating behind the line of scrimmage had to be thrown overhand to be
> > legal, but that was over half a century ago and probably not the source of
> > fans' present confusion.  In general fans tend to get the idea that just
> > because they haven't seen a type of play, or haven't seen it in a long time,
> > a rule must've been made outlawing it, and that when someone does get away
> > with it, they've swindled the opponent & hoodwinked the officials.  Maybe
> > the influence of pro wrestling is at work there.
>
>
> The head coach of the University of Chicago football team was also one
> of the directors of the intramural program. I was coaching a women's
> touch football team, and we did a play for an extra point where the QB
> rolled out and then pitched the ball forward to a lead blocker. The
> referee, a student, called this a "forward lateral" even thought he
> admitted she was behind the line when she threw it.
>
> We won the game anyway, but I went to the IM director to make sure we'd
> have this ruled correctly in the playoffs. He insisted that it was only
> legal to throw the ball forward if it was done overhand, and he was an
> NCAA football head coach.

Did he ever win a conference title?


--  Scott