{ "videoId": "ShCmuf8Ha70", "title": "Why Did Kick-Offs Stop Using Two Players?", "publish": {"highlights":[{"id":"h1780315118511","text":"When I started looking into why the ball used to have to move forward from kickoffs, it wasn't entirely clear what the original intention of the law was. All I could really find was the official wording from when the law was implemented in 1883, which stated the game should be commenced by a place kick from the center of the ground in the direction of the opposite goal line. But interestingly, nowhere does it mention a need or requirement for a second player.","startEntryIndex":46,"startCharOffset":34,"endEntryIndex":58,"endCharOffset":41,"startTime":100.079,"endTime":127.2},{"id":"h1780315142659","text":"Um you've already mentioned it a little bit about the ball the previous law the ball having to move forward. U why why did the ball used to have to move forward from kickoff? Well, you you see that in rugby at the moment, it still happens where the team that takes the kickoff, they kick it into the opponent's half. Um, I think the the history of that was to start the game or after goal, this was a sort of almost a neutral way of starting that the team that was taking the kickoff couldn't necessarily directly keep possession of the ball, but let's sort of kick it forward and then let's all go for it.","startEntryIndex":135,"startCharOffset":4,"endEntryIndex":151,"endCharOffset":8,"startTime":290.4,"endTime":330.08}],"annotations":[]}}