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The Green Bay Packers in victory formation (on the right) in a game against the Detroit Lions in 2007. In American football and Canadian football, a quarterback kneel, also called taking a knee, genuflect offense, [1] kneel-down offense, [1] or victory formation, occurs when the quarterback touches a knee to the ground immediately after receiving the snap, thus downing himself and ending the play.
In response, the Arena Football League instituted a rule change stipulating the ball had to be advanced past the line of scrimmage in order for the clock to continue running in the final minute of play: however, outdoor gridiron leagues have not followed suit, and the quarterback kneel would soon be almost universally seen as a polite and ...
Colin Rand Kaepernick (/ ˈ k æ p ər n ɪ k / KAP-ər-nik; [1] born November 3, 1987) is an American civil rights activist and former professional football quarterback.He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL).
Reserve quarterback Jameis Winston and New Orleans' offense capped off a convincing victory with an aggressive play call that defied the orders of their own coaches and upset the rival Atlanta ...
One quarterback kneel later, a team that started 4-4 had won its fifth straight game and gotten to at least nine wins for the 13th season in a row (the only other active team to do that is Alabama ...
With less than 30 seconds left in a game that was already decided (the Eagles led by 10 points), Buddy Ryan called for a fake kneel. The pass from Randall Cunningham to Mike Quick fell incomplete ...
The play has since been referred to as "The Fumble" by Giants fans and "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" by Eagles fans, and it was instrumental in making the quarterback kneel (also known as "taking a knee") a routine play for running down the clock at the end of a game.
Oct 1 (Reuters) - Several dozen NFL players, fewer than last week, chose to sit or kneel during the U.S. national anthem at the start of games on Sunday, a day after President Donald Trump again ...