Here's a little referee trivia for you. The handcheck signal was eliminated from the official signal list a few years ago. We were supposed to call handchecking as either a hold or a push, depending on the position of the offensive player relative to the defender when the foul occured.
At the request of officials from all over the country, the signal was reinstated this season.
Now - if we could only get the NF rules committee to be as responsive to rules problems, we would be getting somewhere.
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