Overtime Chaos

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

11 is less than 16. You should only have to take off one shoe.

Don't football officials have to count both teams? That would be 22. I guess only officials with extra toes can work games. That's scary.

Wait - you could get to 21 without extra toes if you use your, er, never mind. In fact, that's scarier.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Don't football officials have to count both teams? That would be 22. I guess only officials with extra toes can work games. That's scary.

Wait - you could get to 21 without extra toes if you use your, er, never mind. In fact, that's scarier.

Actually, in American football, there is no need to use the feet or the ____ while counting! Here's why:

Associating a number with a player that you've already identified is only so that you don't identify him again as a player. So, you really only need to count to 10, twice. Once you reach the 10th player, you only need to see one more. If there is more than 1 more, then a flag will/could come out. This decision on whether or not to throw a flag arises at one less than the number or legally prescribed simultaneous participants per team.

In Canadian football, there are 12 per team, so we need to count to 11, twice.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Don't football officials have to count both teams? That would be 22. I guess only officials with extra toes can work games. That's scary.

Actually, no. Depending on your position, you either count the offense or the defense, never both.

So you use your fingers. if you have just one leftover, you're good.