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I've recently looked into the coin toss and tried to come up with what I think is a good sequence. Here's how I do the toss:
We line up at the 55. (Yes, we have a 55-yard line, FTTDK.) The WH faces benches so that he may see the coaches over players' shoulders. The rest of the crew stands about 5 yards away, facing the stands. The captains line up on their respectives sides to make a 'box' with the officials.
I ask each team who will speak for the coin toss. I show both teams the heads and tails, and am sure that my crew know which is which before hand. I then ask the visiting team what their choice is. I repeat "Visitors choose heads", or "Hamilton chooses tails", or whatever. I then flip the coin and catch it. Sometimes guys have the coin land in the grass and it lands between blades of grass, standing upright, to which I have to flip again. I then flip the coin to my other wrist and show the home team and myself first. Then I show the visiting team.
I ask V is they wanna defer or choose now. I then go through all the options as necessary, have the teams flip sides if required, signal an "incomplete signal" to mean defering. Then I signal receive with the other team if they chose to receive, kick if they chose kick. I'm actually still trying to figure out a signal to defend an end.
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Pope Francis
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