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Old Thu Dec 06, 2007, 12:20pm
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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
...Either way, it seems that in Fed if you want to protect a lead with seconds remaining and your opponent kicking off, you could keep incurring penalties until legal recovery by K of the kickoff was impossible. K could decline the penalties. Hmmm...seems an impasse could be achieved by R's repeatedly committing dead ball fouls that prevent the kickoff. So they'd be ahead forever but the game would never end.

Robert
REPLY: Except that the Fed also has a rule which permits the R to forfeit the game if a team repeatedly commits fouls which halve the distance to the goal.
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