All-Star game officating

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Backjudge79

Our association officiates an annual all-star football game that involves recent high school grads. We use NF rules but there are also special rules that are designed to create more offense. One rule is that both defensive ends must rush the QB and nobody on the line can drop back into pass coverage. It is supposed to be a 5-yard penalty for dropping an end into coverage.

If they're specifying an actual penalty like that, the rule is going to have to be defined more clearly than "dropping an end into coverage". The rules would have to define the DE positions, what "dropping into coverage" means, and over what interval that situations is judged.

Moderators are used to make sure the teams are using the 60-40 pass rules

What's that? They have to pass 60% of the time?

As the other poster wrote, the usual practice in games like this is that the game officials have nothing to do with enforcing the agreements the teams make to restrict the game. Same with the must-play rules in youth football, which are enforced by administrators entirely separately from game officials.

Robert