Off Topic: Rules Question

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I want to order two of these. That way I can keep track of fouls so that both teams have the same number of team fouls, which coaches are often requesting. If I get two more, and officiate barefooted, I can keep track of timeouts so that I don't grant an extra timeout to a team. Coaches hate it when we do that and have to give the other team some technical foul shots.

Many(many) years ago, when it was hard to find football downs trackers like these for sale, one of the wives made up a bunch of 'em for us. She just bought some black 1/2" and 1/4" elastic.....little bit of cutting and stitching.....and voila..... the exact same thing for about a nickel each.