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Originally Posted by Suudy
Perhaps. But we aren't there at the weigh-in. And we aren't there when the tape is (or is not) put on the helmet. If the coach wants to cheat and not put a sticker on the helmet of a big kid, I'm not going to pull out a scale on the field and weight the kid. We can only enforce what we see. And if we see a kid running with no tape/sticker on the helmet and he's bowling people over....shrug.
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I didn't think that when a league made a rule like that that they expected game officials literally to rule on the fact of the player's weight, just to observe what the league mechanics are on designated overweight players. When they tell you how long a period is, they don't expect you to rule independently on the amount of time, but to take for granted whatever the official game clock (if one is provided) says.