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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
How embarrassing! Seems to be a case of tunnel vision. The covering official became so focused on looking for a touch to start the clock that he failed to observe other aspects of the play. This is what happens when people only officiate one thing at a time. There are usually multiple thing going on which need watching and the official must decide how to parse his attention to each. That is what makes officiating challenging.
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True, but this is also a case of "how many times is the thrower the first person to touch the ball after a throw-in when the ball has rolled more than 50 feet?"
I'm sure even their observer had to watch the DVD a time or two to figure out what went wrong on this play.
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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 08:29am
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