Originally posted by ChuckElias
Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
when the NFHS first put in "bird dogging",they laid out the hand signal as palm down,pointing at the player's waist,etc. They also used the rationale,if I remember correctly,that they didn't want us pointing one finger right at someone for just about the same reasons that Nick listed above
And I can see the reason for that, b/c you had to point at someone in particular. But in pointing direction after the ball goes OOB, you're not pointing at anybody. You're just saying "that way". I don't see how anybody would take offense at that.
Nick's first post was obviously referring to a foul,and not a direction-i.e. "clenched fist...pointing at the offender...".I think that he was still referring to a foul in his subsequent post.That's why I answered the way that I did.Direction,of course,is different.