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Toppy Vann wrote:
Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:15 pm
A bit of other history on two point Safeties in the CFL. It used to be the team giving up the safety had the ball back but coaches starting wasting time with the safety so they changed the rule to force the team giving up the Safety Touch to kick off.
I believe just like after giving up a field goal, a team that scores a safety actually had three options to choose from. After Team A scores a safety, they can choose one of three options:

1. Scrimmage from their own 35-yard line.
2. Receiving a kickoff from Team B from their own 25-yard line, at the risk of an onside kick.
3. Kickoff from their own 35-yard line.

I'd say that aside from the 2-points, the purpose of the three options is to reward team A as opposed to punishing team B.

As indicated above, option #3 is never chosen. However, sj-roc (where has he been over the last two years?) brought up an interesting point one time many years ago about option #3 in that Team A can attempt to try to score on a rouge and that brings up another point of possible controversy.

In order to score on a rouge on a kickoff, the receiving Team B must touch the ball first and fail to bring it out of end zone. If Team A's kickoff sails through the end zone without Team B touching it, then Team B gets to scrimmage for their own 25-yard line without a rouge awarded to Team A.

Why the inconsistency compared to a punt or missed field goal? Perhaps one reason is because in the case of a punt Team B is protected by the no-yards rule, while in a kickoff after the ball travels 10-yards anyone from Team A can go for the ball and as such, there's less of a reward if the ball goes through the end zone.
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TheLionKing wrote:
Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:56 pm
South Pender wrote:
Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:14 pm
Anyone get the attendance for the game? The stands looked pretty empty. The CFL summary usually gives this information, but, for some reason, it doesn't appear in this game's summary (although it does appear in the summaries of the other three games this weekend).
Probably for the same reason they no longer announce the attendance at BC home games/
According to the Argos' Mike Hogan, it was 11,428.


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