When Passing Into The End Zone Became Legal
We take for granted back-shoulder passes into the front corner and fade routes in the back corner of the end zone, yet both exist today due to a long line of changes to football’s rules, strategies, and techniques. Neither was legal in football’s early passing days, so let’s look at why that was so and the changes that gave us such exciting plays. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Throwing a football to a receiver in the endzone was not always a touchdown according to the rules of football. At one point it was something very undesirable for an offense. Timothy P Brown the Archaeologist of Football history digs into this subject.
