BOTH teams must be charged with a timeout for both players to remain in the game. When team A requested and was granted the timeout the calling official should have asked team B if they would like to take on also. If B says yes you would have two timeouts being timed at the same time. The point of the rule is to have it cost a team a time out to delay the game to have the player repaired and remain in the game.

Just like the saying says there’s no such thing as a free ride.

sez nobody anymore, see the thread part above.

Yeah Bob, I got that part.

Still OOO.

Obviously overly officious?

Yeah.

In philosophy, "OOO" is how we describe God: omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. (We throw in "wholly good" to round out the definition.)

Do you mean THE God, with a cap G or the notion of god, with a lower case g...or are they the same?

Dan, that's mighty thin ice you're skating on there.

How do you figure? It's an honest question

Okay, sorry, I mis-interpreted. I'm suspecting that Chuck means THE God, rather than the notion of god, and that they're not the same. At least, in my religious training the Omni's and "wholly good" are used only in reference to "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob", who you are calling God with a capital G (which is a perfectly reasonable reference -- I'm not denigrating it). I know a little about Chuck's background, and I'm guessing he means that as well.

I like using OOO. It has connotations that are quite useful in both your usage and Chuck's. You can say it, "Oh, Oh, Oh." and it sounds very impressive, or you can say, "ooooo" to rhyme with Moooo. This has an awed overtone which denotes the elevation of the referent -- in the case of a referee who is OOO, it is spoken with sarcasm. Good call!

Unless the idea of God created the universe, it's refering to THE God. That definition is intended to be a description of a supernatural spirtual entity; not a mere idea. Although St. Anselm argued that the mere idea of God proved that there really is a God, I put little credence in his "proof".

If there really is a God, then they're clearly not the same thing. If there really is not a God, then it doesn't really matter.