Talk:Touchback

Points?
Are points awarded for a touchback? More generally -- if a touchback is called, what are the consequences? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.57.118.15 (talk) 16:53, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

There was a safety in this situation.
Notice "it is a safety because the impetus would then be charged to the receiving team". This actually happened on Jan. 1, 2012, in a play noted in the article about safety (American football score), because a return man didn't realize the ball had completely left the end zone (in bounds), and pulled it back to himself and knelt down for what he thought was a touchback. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 20:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Obsolete Rule
In the NFL, the rules used to call for a touchback when a forward pass on fourth down fell incomplete in the end zone. I think that this was changed some time in the 1960s. (I have no idea why the rule used to be so.) WHPratt (talk) 21:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

There are rugby origins to this obsolete rule (changed in the late 60's or early 70's I can't remember) and it is also part of the old NFL's prejudice against the passing game. Also note, up until 1960 an incomplete pass out of one's own endzone was a safety. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missaeagle (talk • contribs) 20:31, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Out of date
I removed two paragraphs both of which said "This new rule was to be re-evaluated" and gave a date 18 months in the past. These were test rules, and if they are current then the article should say so, without speaking of the test year, e.g. "Starting with the 2017 season the NFL changed the rule to place the ball on the 25-yard line for a touchback on a kickoff." And similarly for the NCAA. Or else, if the new rule was not imlemented after the test, then the paragraph about it is needless, or should say "After testing a rule change for one season the NFL rule remains unchanged." Nick Beeson (talk) 13:33, 12 June 2018 (UTC)