Mike Carey

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Originally Posted by jimpiano

From the previous posts it appears most officials consider a 12th leaving the field to not be worth much of their bother.

In a subvarsity game. If the guy's maybe a step from the sideline and can't have a bearing on the play.

The bigger question is how did the wing who's nine feet away from the player running off the field not at least see him out of his peripheral vision? Or if he did, he didn't make the call (I know, he has responsibility for the LOS at that point, but you should be able to see a 12th guy running off the field, sprinting towards you, especially if NY probably would have had to broken the huddle with 12 - maybe not, in all the substituting on a punt play).