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Speaking of deceptive, but legal...
2 weeks ago we had an 8th grade coach that loved the deceptive stuff. Most of it worked (although his team got killed), but we blew it on one of them. Deception was good enough that it fooled us.
It was raining. After a timeout, offense comes out and lines up over the ball. R blows it ready when both teams are set (ball was dry when I (umpire) set it, but had gotten a little wet in the interim). QB approaches the center and says - give me the ball, it's wet. The center is a little to the side of the ball, and picks it up quickly and hands it to QB (a legal, if unorthodox, snap - it was smooth and continuous). QB walks casually behind the lineman towards his sideline, yelling "Coach, it's wet".
Unfortunately, R blows his whistle and asks for the ball, throwing it to the sideline for a new one. QB was just past the TE by that point, and likely would have gone for a good gain if we'd not blown it dead.
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