When officially is the ball ready for play?

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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.