Thread: Mike Carey
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Old Sat Feb 09, 2008, 01:11pm
rulesmaven rulesmaven is offline
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I was at the game and, for what it's worth, there was :01 on the stadium clock after the second to last play.

One very interesting play on the Giants winning TD drive. 4th and 1, and Giants runner is downed in bounds. Carey stops the clock, and it looks like there is going to be a measurement. Almost immediately, though, he gets to the spotted ball and eyeballs it and signals to the chains to move, and they start to do so. Takes him a while to signal first down. There is no measurement, from what I saw. (Although I was pretty high up in the upper deck.)

The stadium clock didn't restart until the U made the ball ready to play. I guess that's what would have happened if there had been a measurement, but there was not. Should Carey have rewound the clock once he decided he didn't want a measurement, or, once he stopped the clock, is it correct to wait until ready to play?
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