This sort of came up in a question I asked... so, let's look at the whole quote from the rules, rather than just one sentince.
A hand-off is a type of very Short pass, where the ball is
simply handed to a player that is in an adjacent square.
Handing off the ball is an action, like Move, Blitz, Pass,
etc. You may only declare one hand-off action per turn.
The hand-off is made after the player’s move, just like a
pass. The ball may not be handed off more than once
per team turn, and the ball may not be handed off in the
opponent’s turn.
No dice roll is required to see if the hand-off is on target
– it automatically hits the target square. However, the
player that the ball is handed to must roll to see if they
catch the ball (see Catching the Football on p14). The
hand-off counts as an ‘accurate pass’, so the player that
the ball is handed to receives the +1 modifier to his
Catch roll for an accurate pass.
As someone else pointed out here, it says right in the first paragraph that the hand-off is an action, like a pass. If it was a pass, it wouldn't be it's own action. It would state that the hand-off is a pass, and counts as your pass action for the turn. It also says that a hand-off is made after the move, just
like a pass. Again, the rules seperate a hand-off from a pass.
Now, let's look at the second paragraph. Someone could point out that it says there that a hand-off counts as an accurate pass. Yes, it does say that. However, that seems pretty obvious to me to mean that it counts as an accurate pass for purposes of catching the ball. It is not stating that the hand-off is a pass action.
After having this pointed out to me, and re-reading these rules several times, I would say that they are actually pretty clear. You have to look at the entire rule, not just one sintence. I've fallen into that trap before.
Chris
At times like these I am reminded of the immortal words of Socrates, who said "... I drank what?"
tiried of braging in realife. Even more tired online.
