Touchback/Safety penalty

[KWH]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Interesting! He must also be a baseball umpire. So he's saying the player's behavior will be taken constructively as if he had said, "Down." Is this one where the officials huddle and the R says: "It would really simplify things if one of you heard him say `down' before he threw the ball."?

Robert

Robert-

Perhaps the umpire should yell "PLAY ON"

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by KWH

Robert-

Perhaps the umpire should yell "PLAY ON"

Didn't we have a discussion like that here (or maybe it was in rec.sport.officiating) regarding NCAA rules where a player catches an opponent's kick in R's end zone, and, thinking the ball is dead, tosses it to an official or leaves it on the ground?

Robert

[jaybird]

"Play on" were the magic words used after the clock expired for an untimed down.