When officially is the ball ready for play?

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by cos_man99

I accidentally left my rulebooks in the crew cheif's van Friday night so I can't cite the rule reference, but I know there is a special exception for delay of game penalties that the clock is never started on the RFP after a delay of game. It is always started on the next snap.

You should have started on the RFP as that is when it would have started if the offense had not fouled. At the end of the half you can't let a team foul to manipulate the clock. Same thing as A committing a false start with 1 second left on the play clock. They fouled and shouldn't gain an advantage from it so start the clock on the snap.

[bcl1127]

Originally Posted by cos_man99

We met in the middle of the field and discussed it for a brief time then decided to assess a delay of game for snapping before the ball was marked ready for play. We backed them up 5 yds and started the clock on the next snap. How do you think we did?

Looks to me like the offense got what they wanted in the clock stoppage, just lost 5 yards in the process.

I think that the ball is ready for play at the fist chirp of the whistle, I mean if it was a full whistle blow, you could blow it for 10 seconds and make everyone wait?