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Originally Posted by BktBallRef
I'm sorry but I must have missed the rule that states it's illegal to drop the ball to the ground. Could you please point it out for me?
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I don't even know what you are saying here.
I'm not questioning the call or
that the rule exists.
I'm questioning
why the rule exists. If it's delay of game, that seems pretty specious to me (and why it would then be 15 yards if it's not about showboating or grandstanding and not just 5 like every other delay of game I've ever heard of, I don't know).
The call was (obviously) correct by rule. That's the way your bosses (conference, supervisor, crew chief) want it called, you call it or you do something else with your leisure time. I get that. Harsh call. Unfortunate call. Brings unwarranted attention to what we do in a negative light and lets loose every columnist who's never officiated a snap in his life, yet who writes 600 words about how we do what we do and how every call is a judgment call despite the fact they've never ever sat in a rules meeting or had our mechanics explained to them.
I'm just saying I don't quite grasp why the rule exists in that form with the idea of it being called to cover that situation. I'm pretty conservative by nature, but I just don't see what harm was caused.