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I worked the chains for the AF2 team here in Rochester last year and we used the two clip system. Working the chains and box for indoor games is a little bit different animal all together. You really have to have some stamina. Since we obviously can't stand there with the chains and box we have to set them, clip the line, bag the spot of the box and run back to A's end zone and wait for the next play. The linesman in the league aren't that great in signaling first downs, so when they are down inside the 10 yard line close to a first, we have to wait, wait, wait until he finally calls us and then was have to hoof it all out to set them and get all the way back.
After a while we wised up and would only go back to about the A20. The sticks are always falling over so sometimes the fans help us and hold the sticks and box for us. The box man really gets a workout as he runs on every play. Sometimes we get a sympathetic linesman who will change the down on the box on an incomplete pass so he doesn't have to run all that way just for that, but usually not.
It's a workout, but it's a football fix until real football gets here.
Most of the officials were D3 and D2 guys. A few of them got their calls and were headed to A10 and Big East crews that fall.
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