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Badass... however is it more or does it sound like the lead announcer gets pissed offer "Trinity obviously cannot kick a field goal..." and the other guy laughs and basically says "Duh."
My favorite part about that clip was the announcer going nuts.
Badass... however is it more or does it sound like the lead announcer gets pissed offer "Trinity obviously cannot kick a field goal..." and the other guy laughs and basically says "Duh."
You never realize how complicated something is until you try to figure out how to explain it...Oh i get it now. Dead/down as in the player is taken down with the ball in his hands, or the ball hits the ground with no one around?
Then what about the bounce pass during the play? I guess that's the place where the 2 secs were taken out?
Games must take a very long time then. Unless you have 5 minutes or something similar?
I guess 0.4 must happen often in American football
You got the definition of being down (by contact) correct, if the player with possession of the ball is down, the ball is dead and play stops. If a forward pass is thrown and the receiver drops the ball without having possession (controlling the ball), the ball is dead and play stops. If a player otherwise drops the ball before they are down, it's called a fumble and the ball is not dead. Play continues until the ball is knocked out of bounds or someone recovers the ball and either they are tackled or they score.
Throwing or tossing the ball either sideways or behind you (but not ahead of you) is called a lateral in American Football. The ball acts the same as it does when it is fumbled, the ball is live and any player can recover it. It doesn't matter if it hits the ground, since that rule only applies to forward passes. However, if a player ahead of the line of scrimmage (the line where the ball is placed at the beginning of the play) throws the ball forward of their position, it's an illegal forward pass and the play wont stand. A ball can be lateraled indefinitely as long as no player in possession of the ball is tackled, goes out of bounds or someone on the other team recovers the ball. It's pretty much unheard of for there to be that many successful laterals though, usually it's a desperate, last-ditch effort that doesn't result in anything.
For a much simpler and easier definition, you could always read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_pass.
As for the clock, it starts as soon as the play does. If there is no more time on the clock while the ball is still live, the play continues until the ball is dead, at which time the quarter and/or game would end. So as long as you have 1 second on the clock, you can begin a play, and play wont end until the ball is dead. Think of it as invisible stoppage time that only lasts as long as the play that was going on when the game clock ran out does.
Watch this for an example of a lateral in a play called the "Hook and Ladder" (or "Hook and Lateral").
And this is the most famous example of using laterals to keep a play alive after time runs out. It's simply called "The Play".
OK, so that probably just made you more confused, and of course there are exceptions to just about everything I described. But I tried.
Very nice.Glad I saw that.
I'm a little rusty on my football rules but isn't a backward lateral that hits the ground still a live ball so it was all legit?
Surprised one of those refs didn't have a heart attack.
Yes, a backwards pass that hits the ground is still a live ball.
The AP already has a name for it: Lateralapalooza
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
Greatest ending ever?
Trinity needs 15 laterals to pull out improbable victory
Posted: Sunday October 28, 2007 3:37AM; Updated: Sunday October 28, 2007 10:38AM
ATLANTA (SI.com) -- In an unprecedented finish that had more twists and turns than the surreal Cal-Stanford ending of 1982, Trinity University executed 15 laterals, off a kickoff return, before scoring a touchdown at the final gun to clinch an improbable 28-24 win over Millsaps College.
History will show that Riley Curry rumbled 44 yards through the exhausted Millsaps special teams to score the game-winner for Trinity. But no one will ever forget the sheer zaniness of the Lateralapalooza, from beginning to end, as the winning score lasted 46 seconds in real time -- most likely an NCAA record (if such records are kept).
"I've never seen anything like it in my 32 years in football," said Trinity coach Steve Mohr.
In all, seven different Tigers touched the ball amongst the 15 laterals. It was every bit the ending to the famous Cal-Stanford finish a quarter-century ago -- minus the Millsaps band running onto the field before the final whistle.
"I can't even explain it," Millsaps senior safety Ray Kline told The Clarion-Ledger. "I guess they wanted it more than we did on that last play."
that was amazing. Its going to be a while, if ever, where we see a play that either has more laterals or lasts longer then that one.
Kickoff return?
One thing I wanna LMAO @ is the announcer LMAO!!!
Do they teach how to tackle in Div 3?
It was an amusing play, but the best in all of football? C'mon.
Too bad SI.com ed up the play. It was a pass play.
Shocking, I know, that there are other college football teams in Texas other than UT.
And good ones for their level. I realize that Horry For 3! would have absolutely owned D-3 football had he deigned to play there, but burdened as they are without his innate greatness, Trinity and Millsaps are among the better teams that play on the D-3 level.
As for the concern about tackling on that level, from watching the play, it looks to me that Millsaps did tackle, at least early in the play, but Trinity did a good job of getting rid of the ball before any meaningful tackles could be made. By the end of the play, though, you can see at least 2 or 3 Millsaps defender sprawled out on the field and several others just stopped. That undoubtedly helped Trinity's effort -- I'm not sure it's entirely about Millsaps tackling poorly.
I (heart) that Boise St./OU Fiesta Bowl.
yeah YOU UT, how do you like a 14 lateral play??!
Trinity rules in D III mens soccer. Right now they're number one in the nation and have been at one time or another the last 3-4 years. I've been going to games for 11 years and they've had some very skilled players and entertaining teams. One even had a couple of years in the MLS, Lance Keys.
Pity you can't delete this thread, isn't it?
14 laterals!, in your face
You'd still be picking your chodes up from various places in Central Texas had UT pulled off something like that, so why don't you let somebody else steal the limelight from your No. 19-ranked Gods of Texas for one weekend?
Shocking, it is called sarcasm. Even more shocking, I knew you'd be the one to type something about my post.
I completed a 61-yard, 15-lateral play by only pitching it to myself.
-Horry
Way to cover your stupidity.
Cover what?
Sarcasm has to be funny to be good.
"Trinity can obviously not kick a field goal."
"Duh."
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