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Wounded Bear

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8. Not exactly...

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #4)

Thu May 4, 2017, 05:58 PM

May 2017

it happens when the ball is close to their own goal and they can't move it, so they kick it down field so it is farther from their goal when the other team catches it.

Punting into the end zone happens quite a bit, but it usually isn't the aim of kicking it away.

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