I will always ask in the first 2 weeks of a new season if there are any questions about the new rules.
I then certainly cover any oddities in the field. (Which is very rare.) The only one this year was a fence only 3 feet from the back of the end zone. As the CC that game, my ruling was that if a pass came to that part of the EZ, we were blowing the play dead before there was a safety issue, we'd purposely have an IW and we'd repeat the down.
A quote to promote sportsmanship. There's always a chance to remind players of such importance, since both teams could be playing for the last playoff spot, for example.
Then the coin toss.
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Pope Francis
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