can someone tell me who it was in the NFL that recovered a fumble and then ran it back the wrong way?
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I believe that was Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikings (imagine a guy on the Vikings running the wrong way) against the San Francisco 49ers in I forget what year.
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in the past 20 years or so, a specific rule was added that if the QB took the snap and immediately threw the ball down it would result in an incomplete pass with no penalty.  if the QB takes two steps back, however, intentional grounding can be assessed.
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I'm sorry. I don't know who you're talking about. I am a Cowboys fan, and I can't recall anything like that happenimg recently.
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Running Back drops, then recovers, no turnover, for him, one fumble, no fumble lost (That's the bad one).\n\nRunning back (Or whatever) fumbles, defensive guy recovers, runs, fumbles, offensive play recovers, two fumbles, two fumbles lost.
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It was tight end Randy Grossman. the link below is to his football card, but I think that's from 1978, but it could be 1979. Either way, he was on their roster in 1979 as a tight end.
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NFL.com would proably help some. Watching is proably the best help though. Refs are actually doing a decent job now of explaining penalties, if there is anything to explain. As long as you try to wait until after the play is done your man should be happy to try to help you understand what happened. The problem with trying to explain during the play is that things are devolping so hard to explain it all as it happens. Easier to explain if there is a replay so that you know what is going to happen. Would almost be best to kinda get a tape of a game and have him explain it as it goes along. That way there is no importance to the game itself, not live so not really interrupting it.
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The forward lateral behind the line of scrimage is a type of flea flicker.  Here is how it goes. You run a horrible  fake to the running back. Nobody bites and sometimes nobody covers the running back (the defense is thinking deep pass).  The quarterback tosses the ball maybe 5 feet to the running back that has gone past the line of scrimmage.  Since it's a fairly short distance, an underhand pitch is probably the quickest way to deliver the ball and it doesn't show the defense immediately that the quarterback has gotten rid of the ball.  Brent  Farve would often fake throwing the ball after handing the ball off although it probably fooled nobody.\n\nThe quaterback can throw the ball backwards for the pitch, reverse and option and even as a standard handoff to a running running back.
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A backwards pass is called a lateral and is not considered a pass.  If dropped it is considered a fumble so is part of the running game.
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It was Pudge Heffelfinger .  http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910
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Yes, there is only one way it can happen, thats if the ball is batted into the air by a defender as its thrown. or a ball is thrown and it hits sumone in the helmet and goes into air, then the QB becomes a receiver and can catch and advance the ball. But it has to be contacted after it was thrown. So if a QB goes to throw  the ball and his arm is hit, but ball is not touched and the ball goes into air, that is a fumble, and the ball cannot be advanced, only recovered if the qb catches it. If the ball goes straight into air from a QBs hand, its technically a fuble recovery if he catches it LOL.. and it cant be advanced
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He was Superbowl MVP the year of 2001-2002 and 2003-2004. He should have got it again against the Eagles but Deion Branch got it instead.
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You mean ROETHLISBERGER.\n\nWell the called it a touchdown and when they reviewed it there was not a good camera angle to tell wether any part of the ball crossed the goalline so they could not overturn it. It was the refrees fault who called it a touchdown in the first place.
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DEION SANDERS SCORED A TOUCHDOWN 6 DIFFERENT WAYS, KICK RETURN, PUNT RETURN, INT RETURN, RECEIVING, FUMBLE RECOVERY, AND RUSHING TD, MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE RUSHING TD, HE SCORED ON A REVERSE IN 1995 AGAINST THE EAGLES IN THE PLAYOFFS, IT DOESN'T SHOW ON NFL.COM OR ESPN.COM, (WHICH THEY HAVE BE NOTIFIED AND WILL BE FIXING THAT ERROR). BUT IT SAYS IT IN THE SUPERBOWL 30 PROGRAM, AND ON MANY OF HIS FOOTBALL CARDS. DEION WAS THE GREATEST AND MOST EXPLOSIVE PLAYER IN HIS ERA. AND WE WILL SEE HIM IN THE HALL OF FAME IN 2011.
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Oh how horriable for Kimo to get PUSHED into Palmer. I mean can you believe the nerve of him falling right how he was knocked by the Bengals player? I am so glad he is with the JETS not the Steelers now. He should proably be kicked out of the league for simply falling like that. OK now that my sarcasm rant is over I shall go on. For the record though Kimo is with the Jets now. I don't think they were robbed. The game had bad calls on both sides. I don't know why the Pass Interferance was called, although everyone admits it was a violation of the rules, it just usually isn't called. The one I clearly don't get though was the call on Hasselback on the next play. As to the idea that all the bad calls went against the Seahawks what about when they fumbled and the Steelers picked it up? You have to play better then the officiating if it is bad. The Steelers played the Colts and got past that HORRIABLE call that the NFL was forced to apoligize for. Yeah I am a Steelers fan but I can admit some of the calls were questionable. As to Big Ben's TD we all know the Steelers would have gone for it on 4th, they had through-out the season for starters, and we know with it being on the GOALLINE they would have likely broke the plane. Come on all he would have had to do was put his arms fully stretched. If it had been on the one or so I could see a fight but not that close.
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I seem to remember when either Brett Favre or Jim McMahon was just grabbed and thrown to the turf by a pissed-off defender (whose name escapes me) well after the play was over, wiping out the quarterback's shoulder. Just an overt act of frustration and anger taken out on an opposing player. That pretty much defines it for me to this day.
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The incomplete pass that Stevens dropped in the 1st QTR.  The refs missed that big time.  Stevens caught the ball, secured the ball, turned to run downfield, and then was leveled by Polumalu fumbling the football.  If that happened in the end zone, it would have been ruled a touchdown. The chop block by Hassleback was incorrect too.