Football Rules and Regulations

If a team attempts a two point conversion after scoring a touchdown and the ball is fumbled and recovered by the defense or if a pass is intercepted by the defense who then run the ball back to the other end zone the defense team will be credited with the two points. This is called a defensive conversion.

Note that this rule only applies in college football. In the NFL, the defense can't score on a point-after attempt.

Professional matches are about 105 minutes long, or an hour and forty five minutes. It is split up into two halves which are 45 minutes each. In between the halves is a 15 minute halftime and time stopped in the game due to delays is added to the end of the math based off of the referee's discretion.

Generally, there are 32 panels. A link is provided to the Wikipedia post on the ball used in football (soccer). New designs feature other construction techniques and different shapes (and numbers) of the panels.)

if you win you should get 3 points

if you draw you get 1 points

if you lose you get 0 points

The length of an American football field is 100 yards or 300 feet. The length of a Canadian football field is 110 yards. An Australian Football pitch varies from 135-185 m long and 110-155 m wide. A Soccer field varies and the length must be between 100 yards and 130 yards and the width between 50 yards and 100 yards. And it can't be square!

The lower post is 10 feet tall and placed approximately 80 feet from the sidelines. The crossbar, which is 18 feet, 6 inches in length, sits atop the post. The uprights extend 30 feet above the crossbar.

7 officials and 22 players, 11 from each team

Any player can receive a lateral or more formerly a backward pass. So the player does not need to be an eligilable receiver to receive a backward pass, unlike the rules for a forward pass.

Neither. Consider this situation: Team A is backed up to its own end zone. Team A's quarterback throws a pass that is intercepted by Team B just in front of the goal line. The Team B player tries to run around a couple Team A guys to get into the end zone. In the process he gets hit and fumbles the ball. The ball sails out of the end zone and out of play. Because the ball was fumbled and then went out of bounds, Team B retains possession and has a first down at the spot of the fumble. There was a game in 2001 when Patriots receiver David Patten was hit by a defender and knocked out cold, fumbling the ball in the process. The ball shot straight up in the air and came back down, bouncing off Patten's leg, and was recovered by the other team. but because part of Patten's unconscious body was lying out of bounds, by rule that meant his whole body was out of bounds, so when the ball hit his leg it was technically landing out of bounds, so the ball became dead at that instant. The fumble recovery didn't count; the Patriots retained possession. To come back to our theoretical case: if the Team B player fumbled, and the ball rolled into the end zone and was recovered by Team A, that's a touchback, because it was Team B that lost possession. Team A would get the ball at its own 20.

If you have possession of the ball at your own 1 and fumble it out of the back of your own endzone it is ruled a safety. If you have possession of the ball at the other team's 1 and fumble it out of the endzone it is a touchback (a touchback is awarded to defense for the offense playing it at all out of the endzone) and goes to the other team.

While it appears much thought went into the first answer, the second answer is correct.

Agreed. The second answer is right. If a team has established possession in the field of play and causes the ball to go dead through its own end zone, it's the same as any other situation where the offense kills the ball in its own end zone. It's a safety.

You should always have 11 players. The law states that at least seven players (on one side) must be on the field for the game to on.

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during a punt the receiving team may choose to fair catch the ball.

The player signals this to the other team and the refs by waiving his hand high in the air before he catches the ball.

When he does this and then catches the ball the play is over and the offense comes out and starts from the exact spot he caught the ball.

No defensive player is allowed to hit a player who signals fair catch.

If a player calls a faircatch and then touches but does not catch the ball the play continues and the kicking team may get the ball and then will have a first down.

In the NFL, 12 teams make the playoffs. Six are from the AFC and six from the NFC.

In the AFC and NFC, the two best division leaders get a first round bye.

Each of the other two division leaders play a wildcard team. Wildcard is the best two teams which are not a division leader.

The winners of those games each face a team with a first round bye.

The winner of those teams play each other.

The AFC winner of that game and the NFC winner then face each other in what is called the "Superbowl".

An incomplete pass. Unless a member of the defense catches it, then it's an interception.

There is no standard size for an AFL ground.

The 2011 Laws of the game document states:

The Playing Surface shall be:

(i) oval in shape;

(ii) between 135 metres and 185 metres in length; and

(iii) between 110 metres and 155 metres in width.

Yes the punt receiver can recover a muffed kick (fumbled kick) after signalling for a fair catch. He just can not run with the ball once it is picked up.

In the NFL a timeout is 60 seconds with extra time for commercial bumpers, unless a network has already used up eight mandatory commercial breaks in the half, in which the TV official will alert the crew and timeouts will be 30 seconds, with no commercial break.

an onside kick you try to kick it about ten yards and recover it, a punt you try to get it as far down field as you can. Also onside kicks have a tee, and punts you toss in the air and kick it

I was pretty young but I'm 99 percent sure it was Alvin Harper.

to give the scoring system more dynamics there are points based on difficulty of scoring. For instance a Field Goal is worth only 3 points, because it is easier to kick it in, than attempt to go for the 6 points when on fourth down. Overall, the reason is because there is more than one way to obtain points in football, versus a sport like soccer, when there is only one way to obtain points. That's correct. In the early days, scoring was in chaos because there were no set values. Initially, a goal (field goal in modern parlance) simply counted as being equivalent to four touchdowns, and someone would have to keep track of which team made how many of each type of score. So in 1883, a numerical scoring system was introduced. After a slight readjustment from the originally proposed system, the rulemakers agreed that a safety would count for 2 points, a touchdown for 4, a point after for 2, and a field goal for 5. This system reflected the emphasis on the kicking game in those days. As the rules changed to favor running and passing over kicking, the point system continued to change until touchdowns were worth more than field goals. And that's how we got to the system we have today.

As long as there is nothing in the player's contract that forbids it, a player can be traded while on injured reserve. I can say that I can't remember that ever happening but it is within the rules since the team trading for the player would know of the injury.

No, you cannot score a safety during the kickoff. If the ball crossed the plane of the endzone it is a touchback.

It is possible to score a safety on a kickoff, but not under these conditions. To be charged with a safety, the receiving player would first have to establish possession of the ball. If he established possession in the field of play and then deliberately stepped back into the end zone and either downs the ball or is tackled there, that would be safety. If he established possession in the end zone, he could be charged with a safety if either he leaves the end zone, comes back in, and then is tackled or downs the ball in the end zone; or if he then loses possession of the ball and it rolls out of the end zone before he can recover it.

If the player never had possession of the ball in the first place, he would not be charged with a safety. The play would result in a touchback.

A goal can be scored directly (without any other player touching the ball) from a kick-off, goal kick, corner kick, or direct free kick as far as restarts go.

No. The Super Bowl is designed to pit the champion of the AFC conference against the champion of the NFC conference. Two teams from the same conference cannot play in the Super Bowl.

100 yards long plus 10 more yards each for the two end zones