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Originally posted by JDLJ
I had a multiple overtime (four or five OT ) game once. We had 21 charged timeouts before the day was over. Each OT period each team gets one more timeout.

Actually the players need them to rest and the coaches need them for their stategic play calling so they will use almost every time out they have.

This is why I said the can of worms has been opened. This was gone over and over a while back on either this, or the McGriff’s board.
In the back of the NF rulebook rule 3-5-1 says "Each team is permitted one additional timeout during each overtime period plus any unused 2nd half regulation timeout's."

One additional timeout for each overtime – plus unused 2nd half timeout’s. So let’s look at this scenario. If team A has 2 - 2nd half timeout’s left and we go overtime, no one will argue that team A will have 3 in the 1st overtime. But, when the 2nd overtime starts, they get “one additional”, plus the unused 2 from the 2nd half, meaning 3 again. It does not matter if they used the 1st additional timeout or not, they have 3, not 4. Rule 3-5-1 does not say they get an additional timeout for each overtime and plus ALL remaining timeout’s, it says “plus any unused 2nd half timeout’s." Therefore a team will never have more than 4 timeout’s in an overtime. Now if they only use 1 timeout in the overtime period, they will have the same number for the next overtime, and therefore may never run out, but they cannot build up 5, 6, 7… timeouts.