Flopping/Diving in Football?

[Vamos Rafa]

I don't really watch football. Does flopping/diving AKA selling a call exist in the sport? As you know, it is a notorious act in soccer, hockey, and basketball. Sometimes baseball, when a batter acts like he got hit by the pitch but the ball never made contact with him.

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[What the Faulk]

Happens, but not as much as people think. More often than not, feet just collide, which is tough to see live. The refs don't seem to buy it as much as other sports and no one really cares, probably because the penalty (incomplete) is punishment enough.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Faking injuries was a bigger problem in the past.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Faking injuries is pretty common in college because the offenses go so fast. They teach you to drop when you get a cramp so they stop play.

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Do wide receivers often attempt to sell a pass interference call?

 

[Hasbro]

Faking injuries was a bigger problem in the past.

During the 80's Joe "Trick Knee" Nash was notorious for faking injuries in the end of games to stop the clock without using time outs and disrupt an opposing team's momentum. Which is a big reason they charge a timeout in the last two minutes now.

Since about any contact with the qb without the ball or out of bounds will draw a roughing penalty there's no point in selling it.

The closest thing you see to diving is intended receivers looking for interference calls. Even then they are better served making the play in the first place... Erik Decker.

 

[Roboturner913]

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

It's very rare in professional football. As others said, faking injuries to draw a timeout used to be more of an issue.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Punters/kickers 'flop' all the time to draw a flag.

Sometimes head coaches called Bret Bielema do, too.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

GOAT flop:

Another good one:

 

[John Price]

Very rare

 

[USC Trojans]

Kickers and punter sometimes flop to draw a penalty.

During the play, it's rare because 1) when you have the ball and you flop, the play is dead, which doesn't help the fact that you're trying to get as much yards as possible, and 2) when you don't have the ball, flopping takes you out of the play and you can't help the team gain more yards or stop opposing players

 

[GKJ]

Kickers and punter sometimes flop to draw a penalty.

During the play, it's rare because 1) when you have the ball and you flop, the play is dead, which doesn't help the fact that you're trying to get as much yards as possible, and 2) when you don't have the ball, flopping takes you out of the play and you can't help the team gain more yards or stop opposing players

Joe Nedney did that notoriously in a playoff game vs. the Steelers, in overtime. He had missed the kick and got another chance and won it.

 

[Hasbro]

Joe Nedney did that notoriously in a playoff game vs. the Steelers, in overtime. He had missed the kick and got another chance and won it.

Was it 3 or 4 tries, because I know part of the whole sequence was the Steelers kept calling TOs to ice him.

 

[Sports Enthusiast]

Although it wasn't a flop or an intentional dive that pi to setup the Jaguars winning TD probably wouldn't have been called if the receiver didn't dive. Granted looking at the replay it appeared he was never touched.

 

[Troy McClure]

Do wide receivers often attempt to sell a pass interference call?

Not during a play. There is little room for error in the passing game. If a WR were to go down easy to draw a call, he takes a big risk that the pass intended for him gets intercepted. He's putting a big swing all in the hands of the ref.

But way too many receivers whine at the refs after every incompletion. That gets really old.

 

[chasespace]

Do wide receivers often attempt to sell a pass interference call?

It's almost the opposite. When a defender is battling with a receiver if a receiver gets tripped up, either by the defender or on their own, the defender will throw their hands in the air to try and show the ref they don't have their hands on them.

 

[TNT87]

Newton had another pathetic flop in last night's game.

 

[What the Faulk]

Or maybe he was just having fun

 

[Fro]

i would like to see players get unsportsmanlike flags for overly calling for flags...

 

[Wolfpuck]

Cam was trolling on that flop

The Eagles were already going to get the flag for encroachment

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Cam was trolling on that flop

The Eagles were already going to get the flag for encroachment

you would never see a real man like david garrard flop

 

[Ozamataz Buckshank]

i would like to see players get unsportsmanlike flags for overly calling for flags...

I would like this too. WR throws his hands up in the air after the play yelling for a flag? That'll be a fifteen yard penalty.

 

[Sakicfan]

More than 20 posts and still no mention of Jerome Simpson's flop?