I brought up the CFL on an NFL message board recently and a poster noted that a QB can complete a bounce pass to a WR in the CFL. I said 'there are no bounce passes in the CFL' and gave a list of actual differences between the games. Another poster said (in defense of the original poster's statement) that, as they understood the CFL, 'the WR is allowed to catch the ball on a bounce'.
Granted I haven't watched a CFL game in a while, but I am left scratching my head a bit. I am 99.99% sure that I'm correct here and these posters are just confused.
I did a quick search and didn't find anything but similar confusion on another board.
But before I go and say absolutely that no way are bounce passes allowed in the CFL, I figured someone could set me straight for sure here.
Geoff, either they were pulling your chain or they know absolutely nothing about football and how it is played in Canada. And maybe the States for that matter!
I think these guys believed it was true, but hadn't actually watched CFL (hearsay). Based on the fact that there were two posters and I found another thread elsewhere with the same claim -- I think the 'CFL bounce pass' may even be an urban legend of sorts.
Maybe they are talking about when the QB bounces the ball to the receiver behind the line of scrimmage. Its not really a pass, but thats what they might be referring to when they talk about a bounce pass.
What you need to tell these guys is that there is a little known rule, that if the QB can bounce the ball off the goal post for a completion, that the ball is dead at the point it's caught.
Or just tell them that it plays like the NFL Street video game…juping off of walls, style points, the whole bit. Seriously though, if they really believe that bounce passes exist, that’s really sad.
…no, that honour goes to Blue Dragoon for his thread “O.K guys. I had to try it”…full kudos to him for taking on a whole gaggle of unknowing americans…
…and just to clarify, I am pushing for legalized single fire staplers…there is no place in the office for fully automatic staplers…