Exploiting the rules

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

maybe it should be viewed more like the defense committing a delay of game penalty to stop the clock with less than 5 seconds left. Ignore it or go straight to the T.

You can't ignore it in the football scenario, because if you simply ignore it, the kicking team is so far downfield that there's no chance for a return. They'll beat the ball to the return man. So you have to penalize it somehow.