Fair Catch

[GPC2]

Originally Posted by Bad Mood Risin

I'm confused by your interpretation. When you say twice above your head, are you saying left-right is one waive, so it needs to be left-right-left-right? Or are left and right seperate and therefore count as two waives?

The rule book doesen't clarify.

What I'm saying is, if we're going to be so dang nit-picky that we would even consider calling an invalid fair catch because a waive didn't go left and right the proper number of times then, then we're going to be throwing a lot of flags because things much more cut and dry are ging on every play that we let go.

To be honest, I don't know what I am saying. When I actually thought about what "twice" means, I realized that I didn't know. However, I don't think that a swipe constitutes a wave. For clarification, I did not flag the return man for the swipe - I spoke to him, but two of the more senior officials on the crew pretty much told me that my instructions of "two times" was incorrect and that as long as the arm came above the head, then that would be sufficient.