Bombers mini camp started today in Florida ... we'll keep a central thread for all reports and tweets, etc from those who have been following it.

 

Darrin Bauming has been an awesome source of news this morning. Pretty sure Penton and Wiecek are there too.

 

-- Apparently there are 7 new bodies from yesterday's free agent camp that we have yet to see "officially" signed by the club who showed up in Florida. Few more unannounced names than that overall, though.

 

-- Florida State REC Willie Haulstead, Florida State OL Daniel Glauser, Central Michigan RB Paris Cotton, Emporia State DB Jeff Richards are among the names that the club has yet to announce but are there. In the case of Haulstead, Glauser and Cotton, it's possible they have no contracts yet while Richards' agent has confirmed he signed a deal with the club. (chose Winnipeg over Calgary + another CFL club, in fact)

 

-- Couple more guys in the backfield who I can't name yet (as per request) but one of them spent time with Hamilton last year and the other is a fullback from LSU with 3 years of NFL time bouncing around practice rosters.

Yeah, for a newcomer to the CFL the only rule with the rouge he really has to know is that if it's a tie game and Robert Marve drives down to the 15 with 2 seconds left on the clock and the field goal team is coming out...the Bombers are probably going to win regardless if the FG is made or not.  

Of course, this can happen too.

 

 

 

 

 

Think of it this way...any ball kicked through the other team's endzone is a point.  

 

Not true completely.  The ball has to be touched.

 

Actually, that's only during a kickoff that it needs to be touched.  Any other time it just needs to be kicked through the end zone.

 

"In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field.

Singles are not awarded in the following situations:

• if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone
• if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone
• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)
• when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched

In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line."

 

 

I stand corrected. Shouldn't have left out, "on a kickoff"...

 

• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)

 

This isn't 100% accurate.  It is true if the ball hits the uprights in the air.  If it bounces first, then hits the goal post, it is a live ball. 

 

I was sitting with a bunch of senior rules officials in the stands at the Canada Cup in Saskatoon in 2009 when this happened.  There was quite a discussion between the coaches and the game officials, as the coach was arguing that the ball was dead, but the game officials ruled it live and awarded a rouge when it was downed in the endzone.   The senior rules officials that I was with verified that the game officials got it right. 

 

 

• if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)

 

This isn't 100% accurate.  It is true if the ball hits the uprights in the air.  If it bounces first, then hits the goal post, it is a live ball. 

 

I was sitting with a bunch of senior rules officials in the stands at the Canada Cup in Saskatoon in 2009 when this happened.  There was quite a discussion between the coaches and the game officials, as the coach was arguing that the ball was dead, but the game officials ruled it live and awarded a rouge when it was downed in the endzone.   The senior rules officials that I was with verified that the game officials got it right. 

 

It's from wikipedia so take it for what it is.

There is a downloadable copy of the rule book at CFL.ca in the Fan Zone section. They have the 2013 version still up and here's the link: http://cfl.uploads.mrx.ca/league/downloads/en/downloads/2014/01/2013-cfl-rule-book2014015205.pdf