Thread: False Start?
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Old Wed Sep 02, 2009, 06:33am
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Originally Posted by bossman72 View Post
Why is this not flagged as a false start?

YouTube - 6-12 Shift
I can think of two explanations.

1. The officials blew it.

2. This game seems to be a championship game. I suspect that the defense and officials had both scouted this play and were expecting it. Since the play fooled nobody, perhaps the officials ruled that it did not simulate the snap in its effect.

I know: (2) is a stretch.
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