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That was the way that I thought it should be until the beginning of this season and in fact we had a 3 OT game in which we added TOs each time. I think one team had 6 at one point.
However the rule, as written, does not support that interpreitation.
3-5-1 Each team shall be permitted one additional time-out during each overtime period (a series for A and a series for B) plus any unused second-half regulation game time-outs.
This says, to me, that in an overtime period a team has as many of their second-half timeouts plus one to use. In the second OT period each team has their unused second-half TOs plus one. It never says that we keep the unused first OT TO. The rule specifically talks about the second-half TOs.
The rule also says that a team gets one additional time-out DURING each overtime period and not an additional time-out FOR each overtime period. If the rule said FOR then I would agree that the time-outs add in overtime but it says DURING so I would say that those don't add.
If your wife said that you could have one beer (or pop for those of us who don't drink) FOR each football game you watch on a weekend and you watch 6 games, how many beers do you have? I would say 6.
Now if your wife said that you could have one DURING each game but you only drank three DURING the games then how many do you have? I say 0. If you can only drink them during the game then they go away when the game is over.
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