A CFL player's rule blunder led to a brutal last-minute loss
This is a rough one.
Actually, it’s a rouge one.
Let’s dive in: The Canadian Football League has different rules than the NFL or college football does. One of those? Single points — called rouges — are awarded. One of those situations is this: If a ball is kicked into the end zone and not returned out of there, the kicking team is awarded a point.
That came into play when Edmonton’s C.J. Sims was getting ready to field a kick in a tie game when the ball bounced over his head into the end zone. He clearly didn’t know the rule as he casually went to pick it up and take a knee.
Saskatchewan got a point — a rouge! — which ended up being the game-winner:
If you don’t watch CFL, you may not understand how this is the wrongest thing you could have done in a tie game.
Saskatchewan wins on a rouge.
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) July 7, 2023
Now he knows the rule.