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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
This is something that I am glad to hear. In Canada, the game would be over and no penalty could be applied - including DQ.
In basketball, the game isn't over until the officials "leave the visual confines of the playing area". It's good to see that a similar event exists, for football, after the last tackle.
(Although, I do think that the R having to lift a ball above his head is stupid. What happens if the ball is 60 yards downfield on a hail mary pass? The ball has to be retrieved just to end the game? Silly.)
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Nah, we'd be in the locker room before the ball was retrieved.
It's not the act that the ball is raised, it's the referee declaring the game ended (1-1-8). I can do that without a football in my hand. Most of the time, my umpire holds the ball up.