Using flip boards to call no huddle-Legal?

[umpirebob71]

To tell them what...the score? As usual, you bring a knife to a gunfight.

[bigjohn]

Whatever. I could care less. The rule is poorly written, bottom line.

[KWH]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

Whatever. I could care less. The rule is poorly written, bottom line.

Do you have a proposal to revise the wording? If so can you share it?
It is real easy to pound out on a keyboard that something is "poorly written!"
Getting involved and offering suggested wording revisions requires a little more creativity.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by KWH

Do you have a proposal to revise the wording? If so can you share it?
It is real easy to pound out on a keyboard that something is "poorly written!"
Getting involved and offering suggested wording revisions requires a little more creativity.

Not to just reword, but how about just requiring any team to offer the same to the other team? Dry erase marker for dry erase marker, bullhorn for bullhorn, psychic transmitter for psychic transmitter, and enough advance notice to work out a system to use it. Not a playing rule enforced by field officials but a league regulation that would deal with the issue in advance of the game. If it was violated during the game, it would be treated the same way as using ineligible players.

Robert

[RMR]

Originally Posted by umpirebob71

To tell them what...the score? As usual, you bring a knife to a gunfight.

It doesn't take too much imagination to see how one could use such a thing to signal in plays using numbers to send in plays using that "scoreboard" and QB wristbands (each player gets their own).

I've seen at least a couple teams use this exact method - a couple of managers flip the numbers to the play the coach wants called - the players look for the corresponding play on their wristband and off they go.