Has a team ever blocked a FG in Football?

[pavyracer]

It looks like it always goes over the line of scrimmage.

[Flying Dutchman]

Pavy, you're fvking with us right?

...or don't you have a TV in that outhouse you call a home?

[Brock Landers]

happens all the time

[Powderguy]

I get it

[lakerboy]

[LostBankroll]

[jjgold]

All the time, green horns like paver do not knw the game like we do.

Paver I bet you speak broken English.............well actually I know the answer Ace.

When i spoke to you last August I caught maybe 2 out of every 15 fukkin words you said and just agreed with you on everything.

[3PtShooter]

yes

[yisman]

sounds like the idea for this thread was stolen from Fishhead.

[OverUnder]

tried to be funny and failed.

[Chi_archie]

YES, and they used to block it AT the cross bars somtimes even.


not really comparable to a penalty kick in soccer though, as in football there are 9 guys pushing the 11 guys that COULD block, away. In Soccer the Goalie is unobstructed

[Jimmy0607]

[pavyracer]

YES, and they used to block it AT the cross bars somtimes even.


not really comparable to a penalty kick in soccer though, as in football there are 9 guys pushing the 11 guys that COULD block, away. In Soccer the Goalie is unobstructed

Archie I know this..This was in relation to a question asked whether a penalty kick was ever blocked in soccer.

[Brock Landers]

can't jump on other guys to boost yourself though...

i remember a famous monday nighter, Indy AT Tampa...Tampa blocked a kick that would have tied the game, but Tampa was called for "boosting" the player...which i don't know if its always been illegal, but is now, and Indy got to rekick and tied it, eventually won in OT..

GREAT GAME

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200310060tam.htm

In an October 6th, 2003 game between the Buccaneers and Colts, the Colts overcame a 35-14 deficit with 3:43 remaining to tie the game and then win it in overtime.

[jjgold]

Goalies do a horrible job playing the angles on free kicks.

[Chi_archie]

Archie I know this..This was in relation to a question asked whether a penalty kick was ever blocked in soccer.

right, that's why I addressed why its NOT comparable....

also its not even close to be comparable... because how many football games end 3-0 or 3-3?

how many soccer games end 1-0, where the penalty kick was the winner?


doesn't seem quite fair that teams can play completely even for 90 mins in every facet... be tied nil-nil.....but because a ref chooses to blow a whistle on one play.... the team has a 90% chance of winning.

you don't see that kind of potential of dis-equillibrium with one official's call over an entire game like that in any other sport, due to the low scoring nature of the game. combined with the ease of which a player can make a penalty kick

[pavyracer]

How many times a football game was decided from a passing interference call in the end zone where tangling of feet or touching a player placed the ball on the 1 yard line for the offensive team? Isn't this the equivalent of a PK in soccer?

[Chi_archie]

if the game ended 3-0 or 7-0 it would be closer to comparable.


but to answer the question, I'd say that event actual event happens 4-5 times during the course of the 350+ game nfl season

[Chi_archie]

I guess to put it another way......


it just feels a little weird, to have 100% of the points scored in a game to possibly come from a PK, which is 80-90% sure of hitting...

it would feel bad to lose that way..... us American's can't wrap our heads around that as easily since we aren't used to it....

it would be like a basketball game ending 1-0 with steve nash winning on a flagrant foul technical free throw

[pavyracer]

This is why soccer champions are determined through the maximum amount of points earned and there are no playoffs to crown the champion. It is a very fair way to crown the champion. 3 points win 1 point draw and 0 points for a loss. They play 40 games with a home game and an away game vs everyone. A team winning a lucky penalty and earning a win for 3 points is not going to be lucky for 40 games. The champion is determined through the whole season performance and not by just how lucky or how many ref calls they get in their favor during the playoffs.

In american sports a lot of emphasis is given on playoffs and nothing in regular season. This is why you get an undefeated team in football not winning the championship because of an incomplete pass and a lucky catch by the other team in Superbowl to lose the championship.

[Chi_archie]

I like the any given sunday scenario