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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Note that I still haven't given my personal opinion....yet.
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And all of us await with baited breath. (Of which I never understood that term, because I really don't like the taste of worms...)
By rule, both a block and a charge/player control foul really can't happen at the same time. So, "blarge" is simply a term used to describe what happens when two officials have different calls on the same play, not the play itself. With proper mechanics, blarges should never happen. I have even been involved with a call where it happened in my primary, I came out immediately with the block call, and didn't know until later my partner was starting to come out with the charge, saw me give my signal, and dropped his. Of course the coach saw my partner start to give his signal, and asked why he gave it up. He told the coach he wasn't really signalling, he was just fixing his hair.
Good way to wiggle out of it, but if he hadn't seen me, then we would've had to do what the book says: call both fouls and go to POI. I don't like that, and we would also try to do as much as possible to avoid that situation, but if it happens, it's pretty clear how the Fed. wants it handled.