OFL: Our Football League

Teams may punt at any time. Fake punts are allowed. If the punt bounces off a receiving player, or is fumbled after it is caught, it is a live ball. A punt that fails to cross the line of scrimmage continues in play, as if a fumbled ball. All players, including the kicking team, may catch or recover the ball behind the line of scrimmage and advance it.

Field Goals are worth 3 points. Dropkicked Field Goals are worth 6 points. Dropkicks are also allowed in the place of a forward pass (not that anyone's done this.) Forward pass rules apply. Fake field goals are not allowed.

Blocking is allowed from below the neck to above the waist ("within the frame"). NO cut blocks allowed; no shoulder blocking; no blocking below the waist.

As per regular football rules, downfield blocking on a passing play before the quarterback has thrown the ball forward is a penalty.

Ineligible linemen can move downfield but will be considered illegally downfield if the they move across the line of scrimmage before a forward pass does. They can move downfield if the forward pass never crosses the neutral zone though (e.g. a screen pass).

A offensive player is considered "down" when a defensive player tags with ball-carrier with two hands fully contacting the body (one hand if the player is on the ground). Touching only clothing (i.e. a small bit of T-shirt or the scrimmage vest), or tagging with fingertips, does not constitute a successful tag. Additionally, the ball does not count as part of the body.

Grabbing a ball carrier's clothes to stop him/her is a penalty. Tackling is not allowed.