Drop Kick

[DrDesert]

Maybe Timchenko and Fry should have tried do this during the season.....(ducking!!!).


Problem is....they may have whiffed and that probably constitutes a fumble.

[BGSU33]

Maybe Timchenko and Fry should have tried do this during the season.....(ducking!!!).


Problem is....they may have whiffed and that probably constitutes a fumble.

True.....

[BGDrew]

They had problems when all they had to do was kick. If I had to guess, if they tried a drop kick we'd see a "Charlie Brown" moment followed by them being helped off the field.

[Class of 61]

When I first read this, I thought there must be an error...Doug Flutie is STILL playing football? Even as a backup? What is he....about 65?

[San Diego Falcon]

Maybe Timchenko and Fry should have tried do this during the season.....(ducking!!!).


Problem is....they may have whiffed and that probably constitutes a fumble.

"Our offense is so good that we won't have to worry about dropkicks."

[1987alum]

When I first read this, I thought there must be an error...Doug Flutie is STILL playing football? Even as a backup? What is he....about 65?

Den: No kidding. My first summer out of school, I covered the Bears training camp after Flutie joined the team. Seems like forever!

[Godsgirlerific]

If I had to guess, if they tried a drop kick we'd see a "Charlie Brown" moment followed by them being helped off the field.

At least that would be kinda funny (providing that nobody was seriously injured, of course); missing a regular field goal is just depressing.

[Falconbadger]

Back in 1970, I spent my freshman year in college at Michigan Technological University in the U.P. (I transferred to BG the next year). Tech was a Div. 3 football program back then (Div. 2) now, and was actually pretty good. We had a home game coming up against Bemiji State from Minnesota. The school paper ran a story the week before the game about Bemiji having a guy who was drop-kicking their extra points and some field goals. Even in 1970, that was quite a novelty. I think that was the biggest crowd we had at any home game that year (the school only had around 5,000 students, and there must have been close to 3,000 people at the game).
The Bemiji kicker did do a few drop kicks during warm-ups and I can remember there was quite a buzz when he made one from the 30-yard line.
Then the game started and we discovered that Bemiji really sucked. They never crossed the 50-yard line and the final score was something like 49-0.
So thanks Doug Flutie! I finally got to see one. By the way, I read somewhere a long time ago that Flutie has been trying to get coaches to let him try one for years.

[Dayons_Den]

Here is an OLD article on Flutie and the drop kick

http://www.basketballdraft.com/football ... nfootball/

Here is also an excerpt mentioning my earlier point about drop kicking during a play ala Rugby. . . (it was since outlawed after Flutie discussed the tactic. . )

Here is Flutie discussing what to do when you have no timeouts and the ball at the 50 yard line down by 1 (or 2)

"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."