Wrong. The penalty for intentional grounding is a spot foul. A penalty for intentional grounding in the end zone is a safety.
All this talk of safeties reminded me that there is a fella on YouTube who goes by the name of One Point Safety Nation, whose self-appointed mission is to log every one point safety ever committed to video. Here is his admirable magnum opus:
Now, I’ve known about this for a while, but as I was digging this out for your edification, I came across a further work by One Point Safety Nation, in which he hypothesises that a game of college football could be won by a score of 1 - 0. And, by crikey, I believe he is correct.
j
Except Waddle isn’t a running back.
He’s a wide receiver.
It helps to know that Miami throws a lot of quick passes to very fast wide receivers who they hope will run for 10 or more yards. Just not normally in their own end zone.
BTW, I don’t know if this is necessary, but:
(See section on conversion safeties)
j
I was responding to this:
Of course not; it’s right there in his name.
Did not know that. So maybe the pass was his last option left.
Look at the clip shared by @Moriarty a few posts up. It shows the play in question. The pass completion in the end zone was the play that was called. It did not work as planned.
So just dumb decision. So many ways to go wrong.
I think I did know the grounding call would result in a safety, just forgot, don’t recall it coming up often, but I think I did see that happen before.
Have you ever seen his touchdown celebration? He, uh, teeters back and forth like a penguin.
Not many, but more than one. Oftentimes, the reason why an offense is backed up that far is due to a penalty of some kind, or after a fumble. So they may have a long distance to get a 1st down, so a defense can play “soft”. This would be an opportunity for a swing pass to get a big chunk of yards. Chances are low that the pass catcher would then be tackled in the end zone, but could happen, especially if the defense collapses or there is a bobble by the receiver before he catches it.
I’m not saying it would never happen because obviously it did. I was just saying one would expect it to be very rare because it involves a pass behind your own line in the endzone which wouldn’t even get it to the line of scrimmage. Sure someone could design a play like that like a screen pass. Or it could be a dump off to avoid the sack and not ground the ball. So the question is if it happened more often it would be what? 3 or 4 times max?
Um, what?
Not sure what you’re asking here. If it happened twice as often as it has, it would have happened two times.
Yes, I would expected at least another one in the 50+ years of NFL history. Yes, I know it predates the Super Bowl era, but not sure if the stat includes all that.
Speaking of safeties, here’s a question: Why should this play have been a safety? You can see the play at 1:52:30
1980 Divisional Round Eagles vs Vikings
The announcers thought it was because of Jaworski’s grounding in the end zone, but all the official history says it was because he was sacked in the end zone, which he was, but he was in the process of throwing a pass to nobody, so grounding also might have been a good call. However, we also don’t see a referee throwing a flag or making a grounding motion, and they don’t come over the PA system explaining it, so I’m guessing they thought it was a sack as opposed to grounding.
That was enforcement of the in-the-grasp rule. As soon as #79 of the Vikings had grabbed Jaworski and had control, the play ends and it is treated as a tackle then and there.
Cool, thanks.
A post lead me to the Wikipedia article on chlorine-triflouride which quotes an expert on the material:
"… It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, …
[Re: metal-flouride fire.]
For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
Sounds reminiscent of Ira Remsen’s investigation of nitric acid.
I recently learned about this:
I learned about it entirely because of the name it was originally published under:
which abbreviates as PENIS.