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Old Mon Feb 04, 2008, 05:32pm
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Originally Posted by jaybird
Note the portion in the rule that says "...in an emergency...". In the Super Bowl (if this rule even applied) or in most all NFHS games there is not an emergency. The game may be a blow out or a team has conceded but the game clock should expire before it is considered completed. We do not start a HS game with 11:59 on the clock, so let's play the entire prescribed time unless it truly is an emergency or a state has a game ending procedure.
If you will notice, the sentence that mentions terminating the contest does not contain the words "in an emergency".
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