enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. American football rules - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football_rules

   The rules vary from the college level to the professional level. In the NFL, unless a player is tagged by an opposing player or gives himself up, he is not down. A player carrying the ball (the runner) is downed when any of the following occurs: Any part of the runner other than his hands or feet touches the ground. Ankles and wrists count as ...

3. Motion (gridiron football) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_(gridiron_football)

   Tight end Andrew Quarless (81) in motion. In gridiron football, motion refers to the movement of an offensive player at the time of the snap.. While there are different rules regarding motion, most mandate that no more than one player may be in motion at the time of the snap, [1] and the player must not be an offensive lineman (typically, the player in motion is a wide receiver or running back ...

4. Uniform number (American football) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_number_(American...

   The NFL rulebook does not specify an official jersey number range for long snappers. However, they typically wear numbers between 40 and 59, with occasional exceptions. In the XFL , the NFL numbering conventions were followed with a slight exception being that wide-receivers are allowed to wear single-digit numbers (i.e. 1–9); the NFL itself ...

5. NFL rules roundup: All the new rules for the 2024 season - AOL

   www.aol.com/sports/nfl-rules-round-rules-2024...

   NFL trade deadline will be one week later. Instead of a Week 8 trade deadline, the date has been moved back to Week 9. The change was proposed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coaches get a third challenge

6. Tuck rule (American football) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_rule_(American_football)

   The tuck rule was called in Week 2 of an NFL regular season matchup on September 23, 2001, between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets. [2] With 1:01 left in the second quarter, Patriots defensive end Anthony Pleasant apparently forced Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde to fumble the ball, with Patriots defensive end Richard Seymour making a recovery. [3]

7. Fair-catch free-kick rule is Jim Harbaugh's favorite ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/fair-catch-free-kick-rule...

   The NFL rule book states that "after a fair catch is made or is awarded as the result of fair catch interference, the receiving team has the option of putting the ball in play by a snap or fair ...

8. Obscure rule leads to Chargers getting 1st made fair catch ...

   www.aol.com/sports/obscure-rule-leads-chargers...

   It takes a specific circumstance for an NFL team to try a fair catch free kick. That's why one hadn't been made in almost 50 years. On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule ...

9. List of gridiron football rules - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_gridiron_football_rules

   A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...