why doesnt the tampa bay buccnaneers no longer shoot the cannon when they score a touchdown?
968763
they do its just they don't score any more
77904
I JUST THINK HE GAVE UP. HE NEW IT WAS ONLY SECONDS AWAY FROM THE GAME BEING OVER.IT WAS A VERY GOOD GAME. TEXAS DEFENSE WAS PRETTY GOOD. HOWEVER THEIR GOAL KICK WAS OFF!! OR MAYBE IT WAS RIGGED, I DONT KNOW  BUT THAT PLAY THAT THEY WER TRYING TO COUNT IS AS INCOMPLETE I THINK IT WAS A FUMBLE HE HELD IT FOR TWO SECONDS. HEY BUT WHO KNOWS, ONLY THEM...
835117
It only works during football.  Staring 1:00 pm EST up till Monday night.
617740
I think they might have stopped playing. The official site has no games listed for 2006 (The first source link) and the league schedule also does not include the team. In addition their old website is now offline.
531644
the buffalo sabers are to fast for the hurricanes. the cans are not use to a fast team like them sevles. if they change there game play then they will win
746432
I agree, when Campells qb radio went out it went for a touchdown. They need a new offensive coorinator and need a power back. They were hoping Duckett could be that guy, but they are not using him but more than once a game.
194575
shoot outs are not really telling of who really won the game. I remember in the Olympic when Canada lost to Czech republic in a shootout Canada was all over then in the first over time Czechs had nothing Canada would have stomped a mud hole in there butts but the shoot out saved them. Hockey is a team game teams win not one guy and the goalie. Shoot outs are for the fans only. Just picture yourself giving it your all you have the other team on there heels in over time you know just a few more minutes and you've got em beat then buzzer sounds its shoot-out time you lose. down with the shoot-out go to one 20 minute over time if no score then shoot-out. Not very often does a whole period go by without a goal in the new NHL and certainly not in overtime play.
981956
I've felt the exact same thing for about a year now.\n\nThe problem with the NFL now versus 20 years ago is that offensive systems have become so complex that only a few quarterbacks can learn them, and even they must have plays called from the sidelines.  (The last NFL quarterback to call his own plays - for the whole game - was Jim Kelly.  Nobody else has since the early 1980s.)  \n\nOf course, quarterbacks no longer calling their own plays is an *absolutely* *unrelated* to the 40 second play clock instituted during that decade.... (Yeah, right!)\n\nHaving quarterbacks who alternate based on the series and situation is a good idea.  There are many benefits to it:\n\n1) Injuries.  When 50-80% of players use steroids and HGH, having two game-ready quarterbacks is a good thing.  In the last decade, nearly half the NFL's starting quarterbacks in any given year missed games due to injury.  That never happened in the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s.\n\n2) Less to learn.  Quarterbacks who have lots of talent but not the ability to learn more complex systems could thrive.  (If anybody is thinking "Jimmy the Greek" or "Rush Limbaugh" crap about black QBs, please kill yourself.  There are more white QBs by percentage who wash out than blacks.)  Improvisational players could get by on talent in ways that they can't now.\n\n3) Versatlity.  Very few players can do everything well.  Switching QBs could force defenses to switch personnel, leading to more defensive lapses and penalties just by changing one offensive player.\n\n4) Play calling.  Why have a receiver bring in one play at a time or use hand or radio signals and risk miscommunication, when an offensive coordinator could send in a QB with 5-10 plays at a time, enough for 1-2 sets of downs?  There would be less mistakes, and as they say in hockey, "fresh legs" because the player catches his breath.\n\n5) Defensive hell.  Marv Levy once talked about using Jim Kelly at QB and Doug Flutie at halfback and the havoc it could have caused defenses, this during the years of the "Ace" formation with one running back, Thurman Thomas and three wide receivers.  (He never tried it because Bills' management wouldn't let him.)  Just imagine having two capable passers on the field at once, one of them capable of running or receiving as well.  If Pittsburgh had used Neil O'Donnell and Cordell Stewart in this way, maybe both of them could have had great careers.\n\n\n.
703851
The Elias Sports Bureau officially changed the touchdown play by Eagles RB Correll Buckhalter in last Sunday's game vs. Washington. They ruled that Reggie Brown did not have possession of the ball and, therefore, did not fumble.\n\nThere was NO FUMBLE on this play - it should be scored as a\n55-yard TD pass from McNabb to Buckhalter.  So in a nutshell here is how is affected things:\nReggie Brown lost a long catch, but also lost a fumble.\nCorrell Buckhalter picked up a 55 yard catch, but lost a fumble recovery.\nDonovan McNabb picked up additional passing yardage from the original fumble recovery that Buckhalter had.\n\nI hope that his helps, but it is frustrating.  One guy in our league lost a game because of it.
602427
When attempting an extra point or field goal-the kicker has to get the ball off "high" enough & "quick" enough so it won't be blocked by opposing team...also,he has to worry about accuracy even more...and the pressure of having everyone watching can be abit uncomfortable.\nDuring a kickoff he doesn't have to worry about any of that stuff and could get the kickoff further because the angle of the ball leaving the ground(first few feet-not worried about a block))has more momentum to carry it further in distance-he doesn't angle it high at first...it only gets higher & higher once it's already so many yards down the field...sort of like an airplane taking off from the ground.
883649
Once a ball is punted with a snap from the line of scrimmage, the possesion is changed unless touched by the receiving team.  This holds whether the punting team downs the ball after rolling or catches it on the fly.  The only way that the punting team can re-gain possession is (1) if the returner "muffs" the punt (when the ball hits off of him without him catching it) or (2) the ball in-advertently hits another member of the returning team and then gets recovered by the punting team.  \n\nOf course if the returning team tries to block the punt and misses and in the process knocks over the punter, it results in a 15 yard personal foul which brings an automatic first down with it.\n\nIf it is the kickoff (either at the start of a half or after a score) that whoever ends up with the ball at the end of the play has possession of the ball.\n\nExample: On a kickoff, the ball could be kicked deep to the returning team, they catch the ball and get tackled resulting in their first down at that spot.  BUT, If the kick is popped up short and the kicking team catches the ball, it is THEIR ball, 1st down at the spot that they catch it.  The kicking team cannot advance the ball once they gain possession.
1030715
This has been proposed many times before, always by people who would like to see more goals scored. \n\nIt's a phallacy -- one of the great beauties of real football is that it is a LOW scoring game, which makes it unpredictable because a goal really counts, it's of capital importance -- whereas in high-scoring games a point or two are usually irrelevant.\n\nChanging or eliminating the offside rule would bring the sport closer to those stupefyingly predictable games so loved in the U.S. Thank you, but no, thanks.
777347
I am definitely against this rule.  The techs are getting way out of hand.  It's as if the officials don't want the players to express emotions, as if they were machines.  The emotion is what makes games exciting!!  I can understand the loud, obnoxious whining on every call, but they give techs for just reacting on a call u don't like!!  And I hope they don't give these quick techs in th playoffs.  I actually think these quick techs are hindering the game more than the complaining is.
865935
the ball has to go in  a forward motion.....\nif you happen to place your hands where the ball was spiked before the ball reached any part of the ground, you would have an interception\n\n\nin 1991, steve walsh thought he spiked the ball. it was ruled a lateral and a 49er picked it up and ran for a touchdown\nthe saints lost that game\n\n\n\n\non a kickoff, the ball is live after it reaches ten yards by the kicking team, providing no one has gone offside on the kickoff\nit's still a live ball for the kicking team even if it bounces back to where the kickoff line was, as demonstrated in a game involving the eagles\non an onside kick the ball just has to reach a point of ten yards for the kicking team to recover
388934
Poor management by the MLS.  This was during the "Americanization" phase of the MLS, with penalty shootouts to settle ties, funny team names and the clock counting down to zero.  This in effect had the result opposite of "preaching to the choir" that is ignoring the choir all together, where the largest groups interested in soccer where somewhat ignored in hopes of garnering new fans.  An example of this would be the choices in stadiums.  Tampa played in the Buccaneers' stadium, way too large and unaccommodating for the Mutiny's needs.  The Fusion had their games in Fort Lauderdale, far away from a large segment of the fan base in Miami ( a more central location between the two cities would have been better ) in a rather unimpressive stadium.  Finally, at the time of their axing, these two teams where far away from the other ones in the MLS, so it was also a cost cutting measure for time and travelling.
797918
It will take a long time.  The offense is real young right now, and they will have to re-build the aging defense soon.  Don't know if John Gruden will make it that long.\n\nCheck this site out for more on Tampa and the NFL.  http://factipedia.com/sportsblogs/
879243
They tried it some years back but found that the equipment maade the helmit fit a problem, along with the possible medical problems from a blind side hit, don't know if they still use it. Most Quarterbacke have plays they run and signals are sent in from the side line by the #2 quarterbacks