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Originally posted by JDLJ
3-3-3-B says that a period must be extended if there was a double foul.
In a double foul, the acceptance is assumed. You could ask each team if they want to accept the penalty against the other team and replay the down. Teams normally do so the referee doesn't boother to ask. A team can decline a penaly and make a double foul go away as they do on a change of possesion. ( A fouls at the snap, B intercepts and fouls on the run back - either a double foul and replay or, more likely, B declines A's illegal motion and takes the ball. A then accepts the penalty for B's clip on the run back). That's a long way to say in a double foul, both fouls are accepted.
This is going to be replayed.
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REPLY: I respectfully disagree. I believe that the fouls are considered mutually
declined rather than mutually accepted. And, since there was no change of possession, this is a double foul. You don't (make that can't) speak with either captain. The fouls
automatically offset. There is no option for teams to accept/decline parts of a double foul. You just wipe it out and replay the down. You say, "A team can decline a penaly and make a double foul go away as they do on a change of possesion." They can't if there was no change of possession. And, by the way, when NF 10-2-2 is enforced, the situation is no longer considered a double foul. For it to be called a double foul it must meet one of the three criteria in NF 10-2-1.
I do agree though that the period will be extended in this situation because of NF 3-3-3b.