So Im watching the CFL on the NFL network and..

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bases_loaded
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Sep 18, 2010 12:21am
In a tie game with 3 seconds left. Sask lines up for the game winning 35 yard field goal, Calgary calls timeout the freeze the kicker, Sask comes back out and punts the ball. WTF?!?! The fg kicker had already made a 42 and 22 yard FG. Am I missing a rule in the CFL? Also Ken Yon Rambo had 6 catches for 115 for the Calgary Stampede lol.
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Sep 18, 2010 12:22am
What was the score when they punted? Tied?
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Sep 18, 2010 12:25am
Yes TIE game, 3 seconds left. 35 yard field goal attempt.
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Sep 18, 2010 12:28am
Play for the tie at home play for the win on the road?

No idea if you have a chance to win you go for the win.

Those crazy Canadians
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Sep 18, 2010 12:33am
They play overtime similar to college rules, both teams get the ball. Sask won anyways but still made no sense in what happened in regulation.
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Sep 18, 2010 12:34am
Perhaps their FG kicker had a bad hammy.
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Sep 18, 2010 12:34am
They were going for the rouge. If a FG attempt hits the upright, it's a deadball (i.e., not good), but if you kick/punt the ball into the endzone and it is not returned out of the endzone, you get a point for forcing a touchback. Apparantly they failed at it according to the game recap on cfl.ca.

A rouge is a very high percentage play. I remember a few years ago Toronto had the ball driving late with a tie game and the kicker purposefully kicked the ball way wide of the upright to avoid an accidental dead ball, forgoing the FG, and instead won the game by a point with the rouge.

Not sure why they switched from using the placekicker to the punter, maybe because with the distance the punter would get more hangtime and better chance of pinning them inside the endzone.

Either way, sounds like a regular down-to-the-wire CFL game to me.
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Sep 18, 2010 12:38am
Those crazy Canadians
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Sep 18, 2010 12:41am
Id rather go for the sure thing and kick the 35 yard FG
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Sep 18, 2010 8:48am
Sykotyk;487916 wrote:They were going for the rouge. If a FG attempt hits the upright, it's a deadball (i.e., not good), but if you kick/punt the ball into the endzone and it is not returned out of the endzone, you get a point for forcing a touchback. Apparantly they failed at it according to the game recap on cfl.ca.

A rouge is a very high percentage play. I remember a few years ago Toronto had the ball driving late with a tie game and the kicker purposefully kicked the ball way wide of the upright to avoid an accidental dead ball, forgoing the FG, and instead won the game by a point with the rouge.

Not sure why they switched from using the placekicker to the punter, maybe because with the distance the punter would get more hangtime and better chance of pinning them inside the endzone.

Either way, sounds like a regular down-to-the-wire CFL game to me.



Super impressed that someone knew the answer. Good stuff sykotyk
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friendfromlowry
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Sep 18, 2010 10:53am
Labatt Blue for everyone
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Sep 18, 2010 11:22am
friendfromlowry;488050 wrote:Labatt Blue for everyone
I hate Labutt how bout Molson Golden.
And horray for Ken-Yon
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Sep 18, 2010 11:43am
Those crazy Canucks!
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Sep 18, 2010 5:24pm
gerb131;488067 wrote:I hate Labutt how bout Molson Golden.
And horray for Ken-Yon

Ken Yon has been pretty dank in the CFL apparently
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Sep 18, 2010 7:37pm
LJ;488395 wrote:Ken Yon has been pretty dank in the CFL apparently

Always like to see former Buckeyes do well no matter of the league.