Tue Sep 10, 2019, 09:59am
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Originally Posted by bisonlj
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Not really a big deal, either way, but....The Referee, blowing his whistle to announce the RFP (so that everyone, even those not specifically looking at him, understood the RFP was declared) worked pretty well for 100, or so, years.
Why such a big deal about changing that?
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Because it resulted in too much variation in the time from dead ball to delay of game play to play and game to game. |
The blowing of the whistle to announce RFP did that?? One of you is answering about timing while the other is asking about signaling.
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