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I agree with Mike there. As U, I spit out my whistle after the snap.
Here's the bizarre play that happened last week. A's ball on B's 40, an obvious pass play - 4 man crew. Both linejudges had broken with receivers. QB gets chased out of the pocket, and then R gets buried by a trailing DL. Just as QB nears the LOS, and I'm ready to satch for him throwing while across the line, he gets leveled, ball squirts out. Ref is somewhere in a pile. B picks it up, and we all run for the endzone. I beat him there by about 5 yards, and he's tackled as he goes over the line. Thank god I was down there, because it was CLOSE.
I signal TD, and look for ref - who is at about the 30, and see HL trailing him by about 10 yards. Not sure where LJ was.
We got to talking at halftime, having a good laugh about the play (mostly giving R a hard time for getting tackled), and R says, "That's the first time in 10 years that I would say it was right for U to signal TD."
PS - Mike - on a botched FG or PAT, isn't the mechanic for LJ to assume normal U responsibilities, BJ to stay on the back line, and U to assuming "normal" LJ responsibilities?
[Edited by mcrowder on Oct 4th, 2004 at 02:37 PM]
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