Chain Crew

[The Roamin' Umpire]

Originally Posted by fonzzy07

Well the reason this could not be corrected because the ref and i can not blame him seeing it was past the stick signaled first down and thats when my coach went crazy. however the line judge had singeled move the chainsso they slightly moved before are coach got a hold of the ref since the linejudge would not stop, we even asked for a mesurement but he ignored us. sorry for leaving that out.

Given the situation as you describe it, this is still a correctable error, since the chain should be clipped on the 25. The chains can then be reset correctly.

Now, it may be that there was just a knot in the chain - it does happen sometimes. But this feels awfully fishy to me.