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Originally posted by mcrowder
I'd love to see anyone backup their claim of a do-over. (Either here with a rule quote, or later, after they run the play over with no backup in the rules, and have the play reported to your association).
Would you rather play the game by the rules and reprimand (or fire) the offending official later, or make up your own rules and have the entire crew fired?
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That is a great question.
Consider. Because of this official's misexplanation, Coach A goes berserk and yells an obscenity at the referee. He is tossed and reprimanded with a one game suspension. He fires back that the crew cost him the championship and spreads the word among his fellow coaches who blackball the crew.
Or, the game is in Georgia. Coach A or Coach B protests that this misexplanation costs him a position in the playoffs. The Geogia authroities agree and the game has to be played over from the point of the error.
Or, you decide to do a do-over. Coach B is livid and yells and screams on the sideline for 20 minutes inflamming the spectators to the point that they start throwing objects on the field. The referee and his crew must leave the field in fear of possibly getting struck by flying objects. The fams riot outside the locker room necessitiating the local police forcibly removing them from the premises and arresting three fans. The officials receive a police escort out of the county.
There is no substitute for knowing the rules!