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Originally Posted by LittleMack
Yeah, sucky rule. I have never seen it called.
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Yes it's a sucky rule, but it also protects the player making a fair catch. How can you really gauge if the person is bobbling the ball a little bit on a catch?
People on special teams are head hunters, they are not normally good enough to be starting position players so they always try to make the big hit or the big play on special teams to get the other coaches to look at them and earn points.
If there was no rule saying that on a fair catch the person attempting to catch the ball has a fair chance to secure the ball when he does in fact bobble it he's leaving himself open to get fucking decked by someone plowing down the field at full speed and unblocked. When the players who form the wall to give you room to catch the ball see you are calling for a fair catch they move out of blocking formation and just watch to see the ball is secured properly.
If this was not a rule people can come plow the person all the time and say he bobbled the ball so they hit him. Sort of takes having a fair catch out of the game.