Interesting play

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by scrounge

Isn't Fed the only code that requires the verbal "Play" after dead ball anyway? I thought NCAA and OBR have the implied play rule if no verbal declaration is made.

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

And they all have the "implied play" if the umpires allow it.

Other than that, though, the post was correct.

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

No debate here.

I just don't buy the argument that an umpire who forgets to call "play" one time that it was required somehow makes that umpire poor. We all have brain cramps every now and then.

[MD Longhorn]

Um ... how to say this...

All three codes require it, except that they don't.



And yes, forgetting this tiny thing doesn't invalidate the entirety of an umpires abilities.