Apparently not, but this season there’s been a game where a team scored one point.
Does this mean the ball has to end up in the end zone? The kicker can’t just kick the ball clear out of the back of the end zone for a point?
As I understand it, that would be a single on a missed field goal attempt, but not on a kickoff. It sounds like singles are only awarded on kickoffs when the receiving team fields the ball, but isn’t able to successfully run the ball out of the end zone.
Bear in mind that, with the end line of the end zone being 20 yards behind the goal posts in Canadian football, if a missed field goal is going to go out of bounds, it’s going to be a short field goal (on which modern kickers have a very high – usually around 90% or more – conversion rate). On a longer field goal, which is going to have a lower chance of being good, it’s considerably less likely that the kicker will have been able to hit it hard enough to get the 20 additional yards to get through the end zone.
I don’t know the rule, but watch the video kenobi 65 posted. It looks like the initial kick is headed out of the back of the end zone, but a receiving player jumps up to prevent that and keep it in bounds. Based on that, I’d have to guess that had the ball gone out it would have been a point for the kicking team.
Correct. A kick that crosses the goal line and then goes out of bounds is a rouge.
I agree, though the term “rouge” is well enough known to have made The Simpsons.
In an early episode, Flanders invites the Simpson family to a backyard barbecue. Homer doesn’t want to go, so he claims that he has something more important to do.
So what is so important to Homer? Turns out that it’s watching the CFL draft on TV, from which we hear the TV announcer say, “And Saskatchewan scored three rouges last season…”
I’ve gone there a few times but it doesn’t take me to a specific clip?