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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Can't you receive a point even if the field goal is missed?
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Yes and no.
No in the sense that if you kick it wide and the ball isn't catchable, then there is no points awarded at all.
Yes, if it's say, a long FG and the ball goes wide but IS catchable (meaning it doesn't sail through the endzone and into the back netting up high), I suppose a team
could have their kick returns guy try to run it back. If he can't make it out of the endzone and is forced to take a knee it would be a safety (2 pts) for the kicking team... but I doubt anyone would try that. I mean why, when you start from where they tried to kick the FG from?
I've only seen one team do that recently (as in this year), try to return a missed FG, and it wasn't in the CFL.... it was the Bears, and it was Devon Hester, and he ran it back (over 100 yards) for a TD. Made the other team look like goofballs.