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Old Mon Sep 15, 2008, 11:13pm
RMR RMR is offline
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Originally Posted by hawkishowl20
The participation penalty assumes that the officials are competent and able to count players on the field in under a minute. It takes less than a second to determine any offense (with 5 interior lineman) has 11. That leaves a lot of time for the defense. Under no circumstances should this situation occur. Participation can only be called if the 12th defensive player runs on within 3 seconds of the snap to after the snap. Otherwise it’s on the official to call a substitution penalty. I’m sorry if you feel guilty about this but it’s just the way it is. Take the ignorant blinders off.
So you're an official and you don't realize that different people are responsible for counting offense and defense?

This just gets better and better.

Last edited by RMR; Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 11:39pm.
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