1/1/2006 3:46:18 PM

damn i missed it!!!! wtf happend'

1/1/2006 3:51:45 PM

video?

1/1/2006 4:03:06 PM

tv?

1/1/2006 4:03:37 PM

telegraph?

1/1/2006 4:07:40 PM

I thought maybe he had thrown and int, and took the guy returing the pic out with a dropkick. That would have been fuckin awesome. But looks as if he just punted and extra point or some shit like that

1/1/2006 4:13:21 PM

Haha. Awesome.

CBS said first successful one in the NFL since 1941.

^ He bounced it off the ground and then kicked it, that's what makes it different than a punt.

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 4:14 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2006 4:13:45 PM

As Lucy Van Pelt would say:

The dropkick?!

1/1/2006 5:26:55 PM

what's the incentive for doing a dropkick....it counts for 1 pt., can somebody clarify this rule for me?

1/1/2006 5:44:40 PM

it's halftime of the redskins game

they should show it

1/1/2006 5:47:50 PM

there is no incentive is just another way to get an extra point

1/1/2006 5:54:35 PM

1/1/2006 6:08:59 PM

I think it would be a good move if you fumble the snap and have a busted 2 point conversion and can settle for 1, then the QB should drop it and kick it through.

1/1/2006 7:18:29 PM

The rule is (or was) that you can take a free drop kick after any fair catch with no rushing from the defense allowed and it was good for 3 points.

1/1/2006 7:38:20 PM

so did they get one or three points for it??

can someone actually explain what happened

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 7:44 PM. Reason : f]

1/1/2006 7:40:48 PM

^^ that is also correct


but this particularly play happened on an extra point, i think....



basically the ball used to be round so some people liked to kick it like this....


now there is no reason to do it because the ball is liable to bounce anywhere when you drop it

1/1/2006 7:43:01 PM

I think in the CFL you get an extra point on field goals and extra points if you convert by dropkick.

1/1/2006 7:44:30 PM

Quote :

"so did they get on or three points for it?? can someone actually explain what happened"

On the extra point try, instead of doing the usual snap-and-hold, Flutie lined up in the shotgun, they snapped it to him, and he dropkicked it through the uprights. It counted for one point.

1/1/2006 7:44:43 PM

just saw it on nfl primetime

awesome

they're gonna show it again, as they showed it leading to commercial

1/1/2006 7:49:15 PM

I can actually kick better like that than someone placeholding the ball for me. my hs coach was a kicker and said that's how it always used to be when he was younger.

1/1/2006 8:01:42 PM

WHAT A BALLER

1/1/2006 8:19:02 PM

why would they dropkick it instead of just kicking the PAT? it seems worthless to gamble at getting the extra point when you can simply take the almost cerain PAT

1/1/2006 9:28:20 PM

i think flutie just wanted to try it once

they had discussed it, and bellichick decided to let him

he talked about it post-game

1/1/2006 9:35:05 PM

it can either be done for an extra point or a field goal and in the cfl you can do it and i cant remember if you get one or 3 for it but i know there is a way to only score one point in a game in the cfl

1/1/2006 10:07:26 PM

its the 3-F rule

you can

Free kick for a
Field goal after any
Fair catch

1/1/2006 10:28:03 PM

shit is b-a-n-a-n-a-s

1/1/2006 10:33:05 PM

hey, guess what, there wasnt a fair catch

he was kicking the EXTRA POINT after the patriots scored a touchdown. They lined up with Flutie in the backfield and it looked like they would go for a two point conversion, but Flutie was dropped waaaay back, took the snap, and did the dropkick

you can either do what Flutie did and do the dropkick for the extra point (which is hard as hell to do since the ball bounces funny unless its dropped perfect), or you can use a placeholder (and sacrifice a blocker on the line of scrimmage) to make the kick much easier

1/1/2006 10:35:40 PM

mainly, the pats were down by 5 after the touchdown (which gave them 6 points) and so missing it doesnt hurt them, 2 point conversion doesnt help them, so they let flutie have some fun in his last season, probably last played game

and just wondering: he bounced it off the ground, is that in the rules, or just how he preffered to do it?

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 10:37 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2006 10:36:38 PM

http://www.basketballdraft.com/football/nfl/news/1998/10/22/drz_onfootball/

Quote :

" "Here's what I'd do," he said. "Line your kicker up as a wideout. Have him run a 20-yard crossing pattern, throw him the ball and have him stop and dropkick a field goal." Huh? "It's legal,"he said. "You can drop-kick a field goal during the course of play." "Well, who knows how to drop-kick these days?" "I do," he said. "I practice it." "

Apparently, Flutie's had this idea of a dropkick for years...

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 10:46 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2006 10:45:11 PM

You can't stop Doug Flutie

You can only hope to contain him

Quote :

"You're down by a point near the end of the game and you're out of timeouts. You're on defense and you can't stop the clock and the other team is still calling plays, right before it goes into its kneel mode. What do you do?" "Take off my head set," I said. "You let them score," he said. "

Flutie's the man

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 10:51 PM. Reason : zasdf]

1/1/2006 10:50:53 PM

Quote :

"and just wondering: he bounced it off the ground, is that in the rules, or just how he preffered to do it?"

you have to bounce it otherwise it would just be a punt or a no-good conversion

1/1/2006 11:05:27 PM

Quote :

" "This would be good in college football, where they have the two-point conversion," he said, "or in the NFL if they ever put it in [which they eventually did]. You're down by a point near the end of the game and you're out of timeouts. You're on defense and you can't stop the clock and the other team is still calling plays, right before it goes into its kneel mode. What do you do?" "Take off my head set," I said. "You let them score," he said. "Then you get the ball back, and you're down by seven with a chance to win it or tie it if you've blocked the extra point, and a chance to tie it if you haven't. If you don't let them score, you've got no chance." "Yeah, and if they recognize what you're doing, they'll simply pick up the first down and drop." "Uh-uh," he said. "No running back with a chance to up his average from 3.8 to 4.2 on one carry is going to pass it up." "

That last line is so true.

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 11:45 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2006 11:44:38 PM

aha

Woody Paige with the wiff

1/2/2006 11:26:50 AM

is there video of this? i need to see it

1/2/2006 11:34:04 AM

Great Thread

1/2/2006 12:21:13 PM

^^ Watch Around the Horn or (more likely) Pardon the Interruption later today.

1/2/2006 12:55:33 PM

is this on any of the sports sites? I'm gonna start looking, but anybody have a good heads-up?

1/3/2006 12:24:04 AM

this is a pretty good thread

1/3/2006 12:29:50 AM

1/3/2006 1:06:09 AM

my roommate didn't believe me about this at first

1/3/2006 8:19:52 AM

BALLER AS FUCK

1/3/2006 9:38:53 AM

does anybody know where I can find the video for this?

1/16/2006 2:44:00 AM

ask people on tww...they might know

1/16/2006 4:01:46 AM

http://us.video.netscape.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1447704&guideContext=66
Only works in IE

1/16/2006 4:38:16 AM

If you look on the Pats website under nfl highlights, its on the miami game.

1/16/2006 5:47:55 AM