CFL Non-Sense to End Game

[TexasTerror]

I did not understand what I saw when I watched this on NFL Network awhile ago and I still am not quite sure what I watched, when I watched the replay again online...

http://djjeffbutton.posterous.com/weirdest-football-play-ever

[LeopardFan04]

Isn't the kicking team awarded one point if the defense doesn't bring a kick out of the end zone? A rouge? I assume the returner was just trying to get the ball out of the end zone. Crazy stuff.

[Franks Tanks]

I thought a rouge was when a kicker missed a FG, but the ball traveled out of the endzone. Who knows what happened here..Canadians!

[LeopardFan04]

It looks like it's a rouge if it goes out or becomes dead in the endzone. Here's wikipedia's take:


Scored when the ball becomes dead in the possession of a team in its own goal area, or when the ball touches or crosses the dead-line, or side-line-in-goal, and touches the ground, a player, or some object beyond these lines as a result of the ball having been kicked from the field of play into the goal area by the scoring team. It is worth one point. This is different from a Safety (see above) in that team scored against receives possession of the ball after the score.
Officially, the single is called a rouge (French for "red") but is often referred to as a single. The exact derivation of the term is unknown but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football#Scoring

[Franks Tanks]

Ah--maybe we need Marco Glavic to clear this up.

[PhoenixSupreme]

I saw this live when it happened. I was really really really really really confused.

[Big Al]

Here, this pretty well explains it:

http://www.cfl.ca/article/als-beat-argos-in-wacky-finish-in-toronto