[Back In The Saddle]

Kudos to you for not calling two fouls on one player during one play. I do not think that is the intent nor purpose of the rules.

If you look at the really weirdo, exotic foul types defined -- double, simultaneous, multiple -- they all have one thing in common. They allow penalizing multiple players for fouls committed at the same time. Multiple people screw up all at the same time, and they all get dinged once for it. But in all this madness there is no foul type defined that allows us to ding a player more than once for serial fouls committed against a single opponent on a single play, no matter how many individual contacts occur. And with all the wierdo foul types that already exist, don't you think they would have a "serial foul" type if that was their intent?

Allowance for intentional and flagrant fouls during a dead ball is, IMHO, reserved for additional, only casually related, behaviors that must be addressed. An example is the kid who gets fouled, then retaliates by shoving the kid who fouled him. A common foul followed by an intentional technical.

In the OP, the fouler was not even aware that the official had deemed the first contact to be a foul. The second act was merely "making sure". And I think it's only the fact that the first is a common foul and the second an intentional foul that causes any confusion at all.

What would have happened if the first foul had been followed by a second common foul? Would you have called the first one? The second? You couldn't call them both; you'd pick one and call it and ignore the other. What if the first foul had been the jersey grab, followed by a bear hug when no whistle was immediately forthcoming? Would you call an intentional personal followed by an intentional technical? No. You'd pick one of the two intentional fouls, call it, and ignore the other.

So why even consider calling a common, followed by an intentional technical simply because the two fouls that were committed were of differing varieties? That is not the intent of the rule.