Opinion on Point Not Covered

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by bluezebra

2..Local rules are made by fools. They rarely, if ever, think of contingencies.

I agree 100%, and normally only come across problems like this in softball. But my favorites in this particular league are prohibitions against certain actions without defining those actions or those players ("Linebackers can't blitz." sounds easy --- but without defining both terms specifically, it's caused us a number of problems)

Originally Posted by RoyGardner

For both cases you need to have an "exception" that would take into account the fact that a team could intentionally commit a foul as time was running out to effectively prevent another play. It appears that is what happened here.

Intentional or not, you should not be allowing a penalty committed by the opponent of the trailing team to prevent them from having the time to get off another play.

I agree with this as well. 1 - the rule needs to be more completely written, and 2 - I agree with the 2nd paragraph.

Seems to be 1 vote for running another play, 1 vote against.