So you haven’t got a prayer, why can’t you just toss it out of bounds, or whatever? Just waste a down

  • Worried_Toe2934@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Well, it could be football lol. I think going forward I will refer to people filming as intentional grounding. And to answer your question from that angle, it is a penalty because they try to intentionally Ground themselves to get the other team penalized but since being caught faking they instead get penalized.

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    1 year ago

    yeah seriously, it’s like why not just chuck it out of bounds and call it a day, waste the down and move on to the next play

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    1 year ago

    To answer the question, just take the sack and loss of yards. It’s a penalty to bring balance between offense and defense.

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    1 year ago

    Tossing it out of bounds sounds like a handball to me and intentional grounding is just diving for a penalty so sounds about right in modern day football

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    1 year ago

    TIL that there isn’t a general american football subreddit out there. They only have r/nfl and r/cfb. The one I expected it to be r/American_football is just the German one.