Keep your eye on No. 96
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:38 am
I don't think I've ever seen this before.
This is a kicker scoring a touchdown on his own kickoff. --Bob
This is a kicker scoring a touchdown on his own kickoff. --Bob
This is actually more difficult than you realize for the kicking team (especially in college and high school) to score a TD off a kickoff -- any player, not just the kicker.
While a kickoff is a live ball and can be recovered by the kickers (after it's gone 10 yards downfield), they can't advance it, under normal circumstances. And a kick into the end zone is a dead ball when it hits the ground (except in the pros -- usually you'll see some rookie forget that doesn't apply in the pros, and he'll let the ball hit into the end zone and wait for a whistle, and someone from the kicking team will go and fall on it for a TD). Similarly, if the receivers don't field it properly (a "muff"), that can't be advanced either by the kickers.
About the only way a kicking team can score a TD is how this happened -- a fumble, recovered by the kickers and run into the end zone for a score.
And give this kid a lot a credit for the hustle. And sign him up for a CFL team next year -- the punter/kicker is the only guy who doesn't have to worry about the "no yards" rule.
(But, as "Bear" Bryant would say, post 1970, he was carrying that ball like a loaf of bread!)