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Originally Posted by bigjohn
yeah, what were they all doing while he was being attended to an helped off the field?
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Honestly ... except for the first few seconds, where I'm trying to determine if I need to stop the clock, I (and most official) generally see very little or nothing of the injured player. Kill play and then get out of the way. Most of these kids are pretty immediately surrounded by 6 coaches, 3 trainers, the occasional Dad, and 9 players. At most, if anything, we're trying to get players to back off. Once a players on the ground, I'm usually the last one to know what happened to a kid.
And no, no matter how loudly you might proclaim it ... this is not "bull".