Overtime TO's

[jack015]

Originally posted by Texoma_LJ
Your dialogue is exactly the point we began to discuss.... Obviously there is interpretation of what is being stated in the rule book. I guess the key question at the moment is the definition of an overtime period. According to "Resolving tied games" ( I now have the rule book open at home) 3-5-1 states that each team shall be premitted one additonal time out during EACH overtime period (a series for A and a series for B) plus any second half timeouts. This would mean then that each team would accumulate a TO for each overtime period plus any hold overs. At the beginning of the resolving tied games section it also states the general definiton of an overtime period as mutual possesions on offense.
It is my conclusion that if Team A had 2 TO's from the regulation game and played two more overtime periods and did not use a TO, Team A would have 5 (2+2+1) timeouts when they started the third overtime period.

I believe the key word is not "during" but is the word "each" overtime period.

So then we agree that we disagree :-)