What's likely is that someone in the control room knows the rules and they tell the announcers what's going on. But I also wouldn't be surprised if the announcers themselves knew a good majority of these obscure rules.

David Wang This. These guys get payed lots of money to announce this, they won’t know every thing but will definitely be at same knowledge level as head coach’s

These announcers aren't just picked up off the streets. They do their homework, they know the game in and out. The amount of notes they take on every game is astounding, and knowing the past of all the players and all of the stats that they memorize. This job is much harder than it looks.

Also, the announcers are typically older, they've known the rule changes over time and the evolution of the game. They know their stuff, I highly doubt there is someone in a control room giving them instructions.

That rule is the most bogus in sports. It allows the receiver to take an inbounds ball out of bounds and get a benefit for it. Just moronic to penalize the other team for being skilled

Pectonic HD you’d think so right lol

It's true my mom has a friend on the Kansas City Chiefs who is the special team coach and it went around the NFL and my mom's friend told my who told me.

@@duanemonroe419 lol what?? Told who, who told then who told him to tell what? Lol the fuck is you saying.

that’s why packers are best

Pectonic HD that’s a very Green Bay thing to do

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Fuck the packers

Found the bears fan

Schmidty030 no guys he’s a lions fan

@@fiend3604 no fuck you

@@aksjjnwubdaswnjdnwendi1652 packers are OP

@@aksjjnwubdaswnjdnwendi1652 I was born and raised in Milwaukee, so it's always so exciting when something from Wisconsin is mentioned. A long way from Chicago? I still remember being happy that the parents were going fishing in Wisconsin. This comment section is giving me shivers.

@@juulesmann9519I live just east of Milwaukee in a small town. Ive always liked the Packers.

@@billyscherer1510 What town is it?

@@juulesmann9519 well, I meant to say west, but I live in Lisbon

The last clip is where I wish they had helmet cams so we can hear what he was communicating when he got the ball and was running

You mean why is there rule knowledge so legendary all these dummies try to run it and get to the 20 like fuck a touchback if you know the rules

@@cyb3rjake735 "helmet cams so we can hear...", umm cam is short for camera not to be confused with mics which is short for microphones. This is where it gets tricky. Cameras record video and microphones record audio. You're welcome to use this as a reference.

@@Roller76 some helmet cams record audio too use this as a reference

Dan Coles body cams have built in microphones for police so it’s be basically the same thing. Nice one

Yuuuupp! Play until the ref stops you. Also, it is not a score until you cross that line or until the ball goes through the net. So many instances where people assume they got the score and stop trying - and it bites them in the ass.

Technically, in football, it depends on hwere the ball is for touchdowns, not the player. Thats why they often stick it out in front of themselves

I thought this was common knowledge amongst athletes

On the unfortunate flip side, plays that per rules SHOULDN'T be over, will be over anyways when the ref incorrectly blows the whistle.

No touchdown for the Rams vs Saints. I think the Rams had 20 players on the field when he crossed the goal line.

😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀 key and peele

Lol

2 hip thrust. 3 is illegal.

Mckringleberry was such a troublemaker in his heyday

I didn't even notice, was so focused on LaCarpetron Dookmarriot FINALLY seeing some serious play time!!! Trading EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for him was the smartest thing they've done in years!!! Super Bowl 2022, I can just feel it!!!

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@YouMake MeReal living under a rock?

The word your looking for is garbage

Joui Simojoki yeah but that’s been the “joke” for like 5 years. At this point it isn’t a joke, it’s hack. I’d rather live under a rock than anyone’s house who thinks that still funny or worthy of a comment.

@@DarkseidMikie ohh your so cool and edgy get yourself a Cookie

Tony but they suck

Krishank Vangala this year they should do better

Andrew Fischbach love how both of you have Milwaukee pfp, so he might be a Wisconsin fan

@@dasportsfan973 yeah. These are two different fans. The optimist and the pessimist

Ig Clay doesnt though 😂😂

First thing I noticed!

Doug Flutie attempting a drop kick in an actual NFL game - that's some pretty fucking high standards now, Bill...

What minute?

1:32

M'lord. Football is serious business

Had it not been below freezing, it would've gone in. Had it not been for the wind blowing in his face, it would've gone in. Had it not been for both of those things and if it was 70 with wind to his back, that kick might've gone from 80. What a kick

He's been nothing short of amazing! Love Crosby!

need to bring him back cause idk bout the new guy. he been missing a lot in camp

I don’t think it would be a field goal record it would be a free kick record wouldn’t it? They’re different plays so the record wouldn’t be different wouldn’t it?

and then in media the football players are always the dumb ones lmao

Well yeah. Its there job to know all the rules. A ref not knowing the rules would be like a quarterback not knowing the playbook.

@@Bennysol Or a cop not knowing the law... wait a second

@@samueljrichardson2499 cops are on the taxpayers dollars. Refs are not. Tax payer funded jobs are occupied by some of the dumbest people on the planet

@@Bennysol XD that's the truth. preach it mate

@Ronib Sarep congress, for one.

Of Course The Rams In Most Clips . Yeah.

Agreed mate :)

A trick play these days is to even have a kickoff return

emiltc you crazy football is the ultimate sport

Me two. but those were good home runs

I agree. Unfortunately, the only times I have ever seen these are at the very end of the first half.

It's just another reason why kickoffs in the final seconds are often squib kicks...no fair catch possible.

The reason it’s almost never seen is because if you attempt a fair catch kick and miss, you’ve turned the ball over. A rule change is like to see: on a missed fair catch kick, you don’t turn the ball over, instead you lose ten yards but keep the ball. That’ll allow more attempts, but not a gratuitous attempt after every fair catch.

The problem is the kicker is not the one who does the actual kicking for the fair catch free kick. It's whoever called the fair catch. So it would be good to give all your players a little bit of kicking practice

@@paul16451 you can fair catch call an onsides kick or squib kick if your fast enough

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this video is only 5 minutes long what

@@tharwab might have been edited bc of copyright?

@@tharwab I was wondering the same thing

Real football fans would know what’s going on lol

@@ok-cu3wy , In the CFL, the first play would have resulted in an illegal participation penalty. Players can't step out of bounds and then participate in the play. Real Football players would know this.

Aralorn Wolf 1st of all who said I didn’t know 2nd of all this is old and the rules may have changed and if they didn’t change then they obviously can do it

@@ok-cu3wy , I hope they did, lol. I can't find the rule book. *sigh*

Aralorn Wolf lol poor you

Thomas Enns that’s always appreciated

Me too

Yeah props for that

This might be a first in all of KZfaq.

@@brianskinner3440 daily dose of internet does it in all of his videos.

Philip Elbert Belichick was thinking only he knew about that rule.

I was looking for this comment. So dirty LMAO.

The one time he ever smiled in his life

Did the Patriots manage to win the game?

highnrising no lost 26-28

He hasn't smiled since the last time they had a drop kick.

@@highnrising It was the last game of the 06 regular season, and the outcome didn't matter. Matt Cassel replaced Brady in the 2nd quarter.

cobeetrice yeah haha

Haha I was watching a top 10 Nascar greatest crashes on TV and every time it went to old standard definition footage I was like "wowwww.... I used to watch this every day and not think anything of the bad quality."

@@ReMz10184 They probably weren't as compressed when you first saw them and if you were watching on a smaller TV they wouldn't look as bad either.

You didn't notice the quality then really (especially with smaller tv's) other than when reception was bad and they're not as bad as the clips you see that have been digitised after the original tapes have been degrading. Even with my HD on a 4d tv worth a small car, the artefacts and ghosting (especially on overhead zip wire cams) can be distracting. That's on 60". On 23" CRT growing up, I don't remember my eyes aching... then again I'm old lol

No... just watch a movie in standard definition compared to an HD version. It looks terrible. Now consider when TV footage was not even close to SD on a grainy TV screen. It was awful, we just didn't know any better. You guys are "forgetting" how it used to look. Similar to remembering an old video game with awesome graphics. If you go back and play it 15+ years later, guess what? It looks terrible and nothing like you remembered.

didnt notice that. that is awesome lol

It's especially good if you like commercials and confusion over penalties. That's why I watch. Go eagles

doja smk If he didn’t he would be calling it ‘American Football’ rather than football

@doja smk That has nothing to do with it.

same here.

@doja smk im guessing YOU dont live in America, nice job assuming that every single one of us like football lmao

AlaskanCabinFilms Randall Cobb did dumbass plus I’m not a packers fan

Very funny. :/

@@zeauxx8351 r/woosh

What overtime rule?

against minisota a few years back, a few players reportedly didn't know you could tie.

That was incredible luck though. The odds of that ball bouncing back like that has got to be near lottery odds. Yeah, keep your eyes on the ball until the very end, but damn that was lucky.

@@scottwpilgrim Odds are 340/1. Not lottery, Lottery odds are 340 million to one.

you. are. not. my. dad.

No matter how a football bounces, it always takes a "football" bounce.

Isn't that not the case anymore? The rules were probably different when that clip is from, but nowadays if a punt is touched first by the kicking team, it's dead at the spot it's touched, and if a kickoff lands in the end zone, then it's automatically a touchback. The receiving team isn't required to down it. I don't think this could happen today.

Good reffing in any sport is incredible to watch, baseball another one where there are so many rules and to watch an umpire nail every call and get the lesser know rules called correctly is a marvel

To be fair, that's literally their job. You might as well say you're impressed by how far a quarterback can throw a ball, or how good of hands a receiver has.

NFL refs shit all over soccer ones for this reason. They're also more transparent not just to the players, but everyone else watching.

@@Gamer2k4 Except a qb throws the ball dozens of times a game. That's not a rare situation. Some of these situations are rare, like the drop kick or the undowned ball at the end of the half. You could also argue it's just as much the player's jobs to know these rules just as well, and look at how many of them miss it.

exactly

nimm90 ikr

nimm90 who won that game?

Michael Toscano probably the Saints because it was 27 to 37 and since the ram scored and assuming they made the field goal it would be 34 to 37 and saying there were only 4:07 left I would say that the rams probably didn’t get the onside kick or get the ball again within those 4 mins

​@@michaeltoscano3334 New Orleans held on to win 37-34. Game was October 23, 1994 (week 8. The rule was changed in the 2004 season, 2004 on wards the ball is dead the moment is hits the endzone on a punt

why he was able to recover the ball i am new in football i dont get it

True Rams should have won in regular time

D X saints*

@@X0v3r nope are you? If all missed calls were called Rams are ahead before that last drive with the missed PI but we'll never know

@@kingofgrim4761 Nope if all missed calls were called Rams would have been ahead before the last drive with the missed PI

@@SupaTraxHD yea they'll be ahead but then the pi would set the saints up for a td. Just like ur facemask calls

just watch the 33 choking him lmao

Lmao

Lol 33 manhandled him

Everyone is holding on purpose, it's pretty funny.

lmao im laughing so hard, dude was getting choked, almost died LOL. one dude is not letting go of his arm. omg too funny. gotta show my fam this clip

Kevonte Jones works for me, pats fan.

Just another day lol

And ravens holding and throwing people on the ground

@@visualbliss9993 😂😂

@82465amen that's one thing I will say about the patriots, they are a smart organization. Even though I dislike them as a team; they're the best ran organization. Have the Best(and apparently smartest)head coach, and a top 3 all time QB. The patriots just always find a way to get it done 🤷🏿‍♂️ Respect from a Falcons fan.

Kieckman 808 they didn’t get a touchdown bro neither of u know anything about football

@@ConnorDudley585 handegg*

@@ConnorDudley585 handegg*

@@ConnorDudley585 *handegg

Nah it's football. Evolved from rugby football. You pussies were calling football soccer before americans even heard of that lady game.

I was like bruh 😭🤣😭😭

They must not have had rules against players coming on the field. It looked like their offensive line was strutting in.

Matt M this play confused me I thought whenever you punt it into the end zone it’s a automatic touchback

Cam Schnitzer it has to be “downed” by either the receiving team (take a knee) or by the kicking team (by touching it) if it doesn’t go out of bounds.

Has the video been edited? Just watched the whole thing a second time looking for this play and didn’t see it.

toadofsteel Sure, if you want to.

I see what you did there.

we can leave your friends behind

that's very interesting

Except they took more out than the CFL has, basically in the CFL any player can punt on any down anywhere and punts and fieldgoal misses that go through the back of the endzone gives a single point, if it's a tie game, instead of going for the game winning fieldgoal, they'll sometimes punt it to win or run a play and if the play fails, trying to punt it through the back

The fair catch is called a "mark" in rugby - and drop kicks are a lot more commonplace (and win England World Cups!)

it's true .

@@Mr.Soberish which one are you calling retarded?

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@@lyrics2challenged oh sorry lol i wasnt specific at all.... the rule where the the kick returner can accept the return out of bounds if he sticks a single foot out of bounds before he picks up the ball.

@@Mr.Soberish while people didn't like the rules, all these bullshit ones, are what make it more entertaining to me. Same with the both teams should get a chance in OT. People would prefer it, yet that's a rule that definitely should not change. (Tho sum like the sideline thing is bullshit) it has to ve a set of rules separating pro from college. People want it more and more like college everyday. Wheel my Raven's head coach whined about Bill doing an offensive formation with a tackle replaced by tight end I was disgusted for him getting it banned. It was a legal play. Not to mention the refs told our players who not to cover and we still got confused? It's pathetic really.

PLAYOFFS?!?!?

You guys think you know. But you really don't know

No longer in legal nowadays. Touch back as soon as it hits the end zone but this is the way it used to be when the NFL was men

"We didn't do diddly poo on special teams."

@@mickjaegerguano4809 It was a punt though.

On god!!🤔😂

Saints complaining instead of executing since the 90's

If you think the Eagles were winning this year, I've got some beachfront property in Antarctica to sell you. @-Tcáf-

This play wasn't them getting screwed. This actually legit. The ball HAS TO BE downed in the endzone for it to be dead or go out of bounds which it didn't do.

@@TheRealSplitterguy thats golden and im definitely stealing that line

sntemp haha

He was getting choked out for so long lmao

💀💀💀😂😂😂 number 33 is getting choked out in a sleeper hold

I was watching that thinking, "what in the world is going on?" Not just your run of the mill holding, but players practically wrestling each other to the ground. It looked more like a brawl than a football play.

adamndirtyape loved that last one!

I wonder why too many people on the field wasn't called?

@@johninokla2635 I'm thinking cause guys from both teams were coming on and then those penalties would offset.

yep, always play to the whistle!

@@johninokla2635 good question. The play was allowed to continue because there was no replay at that time, so those plays where there MAY have been a penalty weren't blown dead and allowed to continue. Since there was no replay....the play allowing the touchdown couldn't be reversed. It was the wild west in those days!

Julian Shipp J.R. American football

LeBron James we made English so we choose how to speak it

I guess you don’t understand anything about languages. Have you ever thought that languages could have regional and dialectical differences? I bet you think that there are only three languages in the world. It’s arbitrary what people call things as language is about understanding, not stupid rules and “wE mAdE iT!!”. You know, English developed off from Germanic and Romance language roots, meaning you actually have to call it by German word, Fußball.(By your idiotic, condescending and stupid standards, of course)

Liam Neeson I can half speak German or spanish and I also go to a grammar school so just let me have my opinion

Liam Neeson I also know it’s based of German language as Germanic tribes invaded our country several times

Could you elaborate? The only thing I recall from a Pats-Ravens playoff game was a fourth and short, Pats ball. It was a heavy formation and TB was looking towards his sideline and yelling, his hands pointing at his helmet like there was something wrong with the radio in his helmet. At that moment the Pats did a direct snap to the running back who ran it for the first down. Great bit of misdirection.

@@srj34 I think it was something like determining who was an eligible receiver or not?(Is that it?)

Yeah they had their TE line up in the left tackle spot uncovered, and their RB line up on the right side in the slot but technically as an ineligible lineman since the receiver to his right was on the line, too. The TE was actually eligible, so instead of blocking he ran upfield and caught a pass. It was a popular college play. The Pats ran the play three times that game, but it only worked on the 3rd attempt. Harbaugh then said after the game that nobody had ever seen that type of play before and demanded the rule be changed, lol.

This is taken directly from wikipedia: "the Patriots went with four linemen, while playing tight end Michael Hoomanawanui and running back Shane Vereen on the line next to them. This confused the Baltimore defense as to which players were eligible receivers - though they did announce it to officials as required - aiding the Patriots on a 9-play, 80-yard touchdown drive in which the team never faced a third down." They did this tactic of reporting ineligible receivers just before they lined up then lining up said receivers as if they were eligible leaving the Ravens little time to figure out who to cover. The NFL made this tactic illegal the next season because teams are too stupid to figure out who's ineligible or not (even though the refs told them each time who NOT to cover)

@@c.m.654 I remember the refs literally saying "#34 is ineligible. Don't cover him".

Sux 2 B U then

Shut up, know the rules

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@@BurningChurro20 oh Jesus it's you

Jedi Knight Jairin Aiki Can you explain why that happened. I thought for punts it didn't have to be caught by a PR. If the opposing team touches it it is considered down

@@kevinanthony5296 The opposing kicked the ball. What occurred is that the ball never bounced out of bounds and no one touched the ball. This allowed the receiving team to pick up the ball (yes even in the endzone) and run it back for a touchdown. However, that's the old rule and they changed it in 2004. If that happened today, the ball is taken from the 20 yard line by the receiving team.

he was talking about the players

I went to a game in 2016 and took a train lol

Kyle899 they mean the players, now they fly

@@itsallison2750 they can fly? wot

The players...

So there was no risk for trying long field goals 🤔

AR Canada np

NFL Films did a video called NFL's Newest Follies (1995) that was hosted by Dom Irrera. Most of the things that was on Offsides is on that video. During the offseason they show it on NFL Network as filler with all the old Football Follies. Most of the old follies videos are on KZfaq if you know the title.

Robert Tilden thanks!

Highlight Heaven Of course! Thank KZfaq recommendations for actually doing its job for once too. hahaha

Funny thing is, it can never happen again because the rule's been changed to the ball is dead as soon as it hits the ground in the end zone, but it wasn't changed until 2004 (10 years after this play).

Apparently more people than ones that actually do watch football/know the rules

Lol

@@gordonramzi me

With the right kicker it would be too over powered

Completely ignore your offense get a jacked up kicker and defense. Would be the most hilarious football team ever

Commentators: "He's going to attempt a 71 yard kick!" Australians: "....."

@@humanrich cool..?

Yes, different sports are different. Not really that mind blowing.

@@Blueshirt38 Actually it's not the sport, it's the ball.

They're not impressed because it's hard. They're just impressed because no one ever does it and its harder than the alternative with no benefit. It was his last play of his career.

K

Handegg is complete ucking shit and the rest of the world knows it, watch rugby instead twat

True that brotherin

YES!

Bears double doink lol

The Packers would probably be the Ty Montgomery fumble. Packers played well, but dumb errors cost them big time. Situational football was at their worst

Joe Hill ;(

great idea

I watched the last one three times

Saw that play live...

@@MudMuzic no fucking way thats cool lol how long ago was that lol ?

Always play to the whistle

jose contreras going off memory alone I’d have to say that was sometime between 98-00... and let me clarify when I say live I mean live on TV

Nice try

Yes they do!

iu

It's so fucking funny.