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Originally Posted by octothorp
So should a play be called dead in hockey after the goaltender makes any save or after a shot goes wide, or after a basketball player misses, or after a deep fly-ball bounces off the outfield fence and stays in play or after an infielder botches their throw to first? After all, those are all someone failing at their primary objective.
Sports if full of 'mitigation of failure' strategies, where one side is unsuccessful in their aim, but play continues until one side or the other obtains a certain outcome. Sometimes, the side that 'fails' is able to mitigate their loss or even gain an advantage. Sometimes, the other side successfully punishes the failing team. Those are often the most interesting moments in sports, and sports would be dull without it. Saying that field-goal kicking should somehow to be the exception to this rule is strange.
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I don't think those examples really work because they're not necessarily failures. You can put a puck on net with the intent of scoring a goal or to try to generate a rebound, a double advances your baserunners. They're actually part of the game. You don't kick a FG for any other reason than to score 3 points. I mean you can try and dress it up as strategy if you want and in the context of a punt I can see the argument (barely), but you can also see how it's a consolation prize in FG situations, right?
I haven't watched the CFL for a while but if I understand it correctly, two teams could be tied with 5 seconds left to play and one team at the other's 30 and they could just punt it out of the back of the endzone to win the game, correct? It just seems super mickey mouse to me.