Holy Roller

Holy Roller (also known as The Immaculate Deception ) is the nickname of a controversial, victorious play by the Oakland Raiders against the San Diego Chargers on September 10, 1978 at San Diego Stadium (now SDCCU Stadium ). This event led to a change in the rules of the National Football League (NFL) in 1979 .

The move

At 14:20 and a remaining playing time of ten seconds, the Raiders were 14 yards from the opposing end zone . The quarterback of the Raiders, Ken Stabler , was named after the snap from linebacker the Chargers, Woodrow Lowe , at the 24-yard line slumped . Stabler fumbled the ball, which then rolled towards the end zone. Pete Banaszak , the Raiders' running back , tried to secure the ball at the 12-yard line but failed, just pushed the ball further towards the end zone. Tight end Dave Casper was the next player to try to secure the ball. At first he failed too and instead pushed the ball into the end zone, where he threw himself on the ball and now secured it and thus scored a touchdown . After kicker Errol Mann scored the point after touchdown , the Raiders won 21:20.

The referees ruled that Banaszak and Casper's actions were compliant as it was impossible to tell whether they were deliberately hitting the ball forward, which would have been illegal. The National Football League (NFL) backed referee Jerry Markbreit's decision that Stabler fumblet the ball and not threw a forward pass.

However, Stabler's fumble was done on purpose. "I fumbled on purpose," he said after the game. Banaszak and Casper also admitted that they deliberately hit the ball towards the end zone.

aftermath

In response to the Holy Roller, the NFL passed a rule in the following off-season that restricted the offense from recapturing a fumble . If a player fumbles the ball after the two-minute warning or at any time during a fourth down , only the fumbling player can take the ball back and bring it forward. If a teammate of the fooling player conquers the ball, the ball is placed at the location of the fumble, unless the fumble is captured behind the location of the fumble, then the ball is placed at the location of the capture. This rule is also known as the Holy Roller rule .

This rule played an important part in the defeat of the Green Bay Packers by the Buffalo Bills on December 14, 2014. Immediately after the two-minute warning of the second half, Aaron Rodgers was knocked out of his hand by Mario Williams and it rolled into the End zone of Green Bay and came to a halt there. Packer's running back Eddie Lacy picked up the ball and tried to run forward with it, but the referee reacted quickly and waved his hands over his head to signal that the play was over. After consulting the back judge , he signaled a safety for Buffalo. The NFL referee said that since the rule change, the only person who could have brought the ball forward for Green Bay was the fumbling player (Rodgers) himself and the safety was given correctly.

Web links

Top Ten Controversial Calls: Holy roller on nfl.com
Radio commentary by Bill King's Holy Roller on bayarearadio.org

Individual evidence

↑ NFL Feature: Five Best Bloopers of All Time. (No longer available online.) September 23, 2012, archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Jerry Markbreit, Alan Steinberg: Last Call. Memoirs of an NFL Referee . Sports Publishing Inc., Champaign, Illinois 1999, ISBN 1-58382-030-2 , pp. 183-186 .
↑ ^a ^b The 'Holy Roller'. In: profootballhof.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015 : "I fumbled it on purpose"
↑ Mac Hyman: Sport Shots . In: Oakland Post , Sept. 15, 1978, p. 8. Retrieved July 11, 2010. "Stabler said he intentionally fumbled, Pete B. said he batted the ball forward, and Dave Casper said that he knew that if he fell on the ball on the one or two yard line the game would have been over, so he kicked it along into the end zone and fell on it. "
↑ Joe Lapointe: The Giants' Fragile Grasp of the Football Is Causing Concern . In: The New York Times , November 16, 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2009. “The league changed the rule the next season, making it illegal for the offense to advance the ball beyond the spot of the fumble in the last two minutes or at any time on fourth down. "
↑ Fumble. National Football League, accessed on August 6, 2016 : "On a play from scrimmage, if an offensive player fumbles anywhere on the field during fourth down, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and / or advance the ball. If any player fumbles after the two-minute warning in a half, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and / or advance the ball. If recovered by any other offensive player, the ball is dead at the spot of the fumble unless it is recovered behind the spot of the fumble. In that case, the ball is dead at the spot of recovery. "
^ ^A ^b Rodger Sherman: The safety that sealed the Bills' win over the Packers was because of the Holy Roller rule. December 14, 2014, accessed October 27, 2015 .

[1] NFL Feature: Five Best Bloopers of All Time. (No longer available online.) September 23, 2012, archived from the original on November 27, 2015 ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Jerry Markbreit, Alan Steinberg: Last Call. Memoirs of an NFL Referee . Sports Publishing Inc., Champaign, Illinois 1999, ISBN 1-58382-030-2 , pp. 183-186 .

[HOF-3] The 'Holy Roller'. In: profootballhof.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015 : "I fumbled it on purpose"

[hyman-4] Mac Hyman: Sport Shots . In: Oakland Post , Sept. 15, 1978, p. 8. Retrieved July 11, 2010. "Stabler said he intentionally fumbled, Pete B. said he batted the ball forward, and Dave Casper said that he knew that if he fell on the ball on the one or two yard line the game would have been over, so he kicked it along into the end zone and fell on it. "

[5] Joe Lapointe: The Giants' Fragile Grasp of the Football Is Causing Concern . In: The New York Times , November 16, 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2009. “The league changed the rule the next season, making it illegal for the offense to advance the ball beyond the spot of the fumble in the last two minutes or at any time on fourth down. "

[6] Fumble. National Football League, accessed on August 6, 2016 : "On a play from scrimmage, if an offensive player fumbles anywhere on the field during fourth down, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and / or advance the ball. If any player fumbles after the two-minute warning in a half, only the fumbling player is permitted to recover and / or advance the ball. If recovered by any other offensive player, the ball is dead at the spot of the fumble unless it is recovered behind the spot of the fumble. In that case, the ball is dead at the spot of recovery. "

[sbnation-7] A ^b Rodger Sherman: The safety that sealed the Bills' win over the Packers was because of the Holy Roller rule. December 14, 2014, accessed October 27, 2015 .