Ending the Half

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by mikesears

I've had this happen a couple of times. In the first situation, I told both teams before the ready that if time expired, the offense was still going to be allowed to play the down. And they understood and played the down.

In the second situation, the was SO MUCH confusion that I blew my whistle, explained to both teams (and both coaches) that we had to run an untimed down. I then blew another ready-for-play once they all understood that one more play needed to be run. They didn't understand WHY but they played the down.

Any idea why so much difference in understanding between the two games?

If this is really a problem for some, and you have visible official time, then you can do as they do in labor contract negotiations, and stop the clock at 1 sec. before "midnight".

Robert