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Originally Posted by bucky
In my entire career I have neither ever notified the teams about 3 minutes remaining in the intermission, nor have I witnessed any other official do that.
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Neither have I, over almost forty years. The rule states that it is the responsibility of the referee to
have each team notified three minutes before each half is to begin.
We don't notify the teams ourselves, but simply have the timekeepers do it. If I'm the referee, when I grab my jacket at the beginning of the halftime intermission, I just say to the timekeeper, "Notify both teams and the officials when there are three minutes left in halftime".
However, I will admit that many timekeepers are negligent in doing this, even when asked.