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[SIZE=+2]NFL changes rule on K-balls
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]10:48 PM CDT on Thursday, March 29, 2007
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] [/SIZE] PHOENIX – At its annual meeting this week, the NFL altered the rule involving balls used exclusively by kickers and punters in an attempt to give handlers of the football a break.
In the past, the 12 balls – known as K-balls – would be rotated throughout a game so that specialists were always kicking a new or nearly new football.
Now the NFL will mark the 12 K-balls in the game, one through 12. K-ball No. 1 will be used on the opening kickoff and on every kicking play it's available. Then the No. 2 K-ball will be put into play. It, too, will be used on every kicking play until it is no longer available.
There were complaints from Dallas after holder Tony Romo mishandled a slick, new football on a botched field goal attempt late in a playoff game against Seattle, costing the Cowboys a chance to take a lead late in the fourth quarter. This rule change is designed to keep game-worn balls in the game.
Rick Gosselin
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]10:48 PM CDT on Thursday, March 29, 2007
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] [/SIZE] PHOENIX – At its annual meeting this week, the NFL altered the rule involving balls used exclusively by kickers and punters in an attempt to give handlers of the football a break.
In the past, the 12 balls – known as K-balls – would be rotated throughout a game so that specialists were always kicking a new or nearly new football.
Now the NFL will mark the 12 K-balls in the game, one through 12. K-ball No. 1 will be used on the opening kickoff and on every kicking play it's available. Then the No. 2 K-ball will be put into play. It, too, will be used on every kicking play until it is no longer available.
There were complaints from Dallas after holder Tony Romo mishandled a slick, new football on a botched field goal attempt late in a playoff game against Seattle, costing the Cowboys a chance to take a lead late in the fourth quarter. This rule change is designed to keep game-worn balls in the game.
Rick Gosselin