Extend the Period?

[Ed Hickland]

Originally posted by STEVED21
Ed,

Sorry to read about your "problem". On our crew we are all clock watchers. If the team is not rushing to get the play off, especially in the 1st and 3rd quarters, our referee will try not to get in this same situation. If he doesn't notice, someone on the crew will call his name just to delay his RFP.

We had a similar situation Sat. The timer was a rookie official. We had a touchdown at the end of the 1stQ. He could have let the quarter run out, but stopped it at 1 sec.
Same as you, the 1 sec. took minutes for no reason. We always go over this in the pregame, but of course he was late.

Thanks for the advice. I realized after the game my back was to the scoreboard at the time, otherwise, the 25-second clock would have started at 24 seconds.

We will go over that in the pregame next week and the mechanic will be to have the umpire not only watch the clock but give me a signal to hold the ready until it is under 25 seconds.