What Would Happen?

[Notre Dame du Lac]

It’s 24-28, the team with 28 kicks off to the team with 24 with 10 seconds left in the game. The return team is streaking down the sideline, it is clear they will score a touchdown and win the game. An opposing teams player, fan, or coach comes off the sideline and goes onto the field and tackles the player or helps allow a tackle to prevent a touchdown. The time has run out and the team with 24 loses the opportunity to score the touchdown on the kickoff over an illegal interference from the sideline. What happens?

 

[NDinNJ]

It’s 24-28, the team with 28 kicks off to the team with 24 with 10 seconds left in the game. The return team is streaking down the sideline, it is clear they will score a touchdown and win the game. An opposing teams player, fan, or coach comes off the sideline and goes onto the field and tackles the player or helps allow a tackle to prevent a touchdown. The time has run out and the team with 24 loses the opportunity to score the touchdown on the kickoff over an illegal interference from the sideline. What happens?

Go back to the video, freeze it at the point where the fan interferes, and place all the players closest to the ball carrier in the spot they were at on the field at that moment. Ref blows the whistle and the play resumes to completion.

 

[Golson5]

It’s 24-28, the team with 28 kicks off to the team with 24 with 10 seconds left in the game. The return team is streaking down the sideline, it is clear they will score a touchdown and win the game. An opposing teams player, fan, or coach comes off the sideline and goes onto the field and tackles the player or helps allow a tackle to prevent a touchdown. The time has run out and the team with 24 loses the opportunity to score the touchdown on the kickoff over an illegal interference from the sideline. What happens?

They would still have a Play. 15 yards from where the penalty was. 1 untimed down

 

[Notre Dame du Lac]

They would still have a Play. 15 yards from where the penalty was. 1 untimed down

Yep. So in other words, that would be a great penalty to make.

 

[wicker]

TD's have been awarded in that situation

 

[Golson5]

Yep. So in other words, that would be a great penalty to make.

If you did that as a player, you would be suspended for the year and might lose your scholarship. That would be an all time scumbag move

 

[Notre Dame du Lac]

TD's have been awarded in that situation

That would be the fair way to do it.

 

[Quest4Twelve]

I think point of the OP is that there is no official rule that would award a TD and the W.

 

[Notre Dame du Lac]

If you did that as a player, you would be suspended for the year and might lose your scholarship. That would be an all time scumbag move

If it’s the NC game and you’re a senior 3rd stringer? It’s wrong to do it, but there should be a rule.

 

[Golson5]

If it’s the NC game and you’re a senior 3rd stringer? It’s wrong to do it, but there should be a rule.

No one would do that. They're all competitors. That's for the weak

 

[Notre Dame du Lac]

No one would do that. They're all competitors. That's for the weak

No one would do that? Seriously? Do you live in a fake reality where people behave themselves without rules? Stop.

 

[Golson5]

No one would do that? Seriously? Do you live in a fake reality where people behave themselves without rules? Stop.

Football has been played for over 100 years. I've been watching football my entire life. I think I've seen it 2 times and 1 was in high school.

Another stupid post by IrishBeer

 

[notredamerises23]

TD's have been awarded in that situation

In college? It’s interesting because technically speaking, even the player with a free and open field to go score could theoretically trip and fall before getting into the end zone.

 

[Notre Dame du Lac]

Football has been played for over 100 years. I've been watching football my entire life. I think I've seen it 2 times and 1 was in high school.

Another stupid post by IrishBeer

D bag

 

[Golson5]

D bag

Maybe. But the point remains it was a nonsense and silly

 

[HDK]

I believe that an Alabama player did just that back in the 40s or 50s. I remember reading about it and will now have to try find confirmation.

Well, it wasn't the last play of the game, but:

Maegle, famously tackled from the bench in 1954 Cotton Bowl, dies

An Alabama player not in the game came off the sideline to tackle Rice’s Dicky Maegle, who had a path to the end zone.

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