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Originally posted by Nevadaref
Well, that is your decision and in your game you are certainly entitled to call it that way.
I, however, believe that there is a threshold involved. The official must use his judgment to what that is, but I do not have a zero tolerance policy.
What would you rule on a shirt that got blood on it on Friday, but due to travel the team was unable to wash it, and now on Saturday it has a dried blood splatter on it.
Are you going to say blood is blood and the shirt must go? Or do you think that it isn't likely to be spread to another player and is permissible?
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For me, any amount is definately excessive (if I can see it without a microscope, there's enough there to infect someone). Not to mention, any amount of blood on the player's body merits their removal from the game (per rule).
Also, if between Friday and Saturday a team can't find a different shirt, they have bigger problems than the blood rule.
BTW, this is why I don't like the NCAA rule, which allows the teams' own trainers to decide whether or not the jersey is "saturated" with blood.
[Edited by Mark Dexter on Dec 31st, 2002 at 08:38 PM]