Using flip boards to call no huddle-Legal?

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

SECTION 6 COACHES FIELD EQUIPMENT
ART. 1 . . . Communication devices, other than audio recorder, Local Area Network (LAN) phones and/or headsets, including but not limited to cellular phones, still photograph(s), film, analog or digital video(s) and/or Internet depictions, shall not be used for coaching purposes during the game or between periods.


How about dry erase boards to COMMUNICATE PLAYS?

CANADIAN RULING:

Don't go looking for mucous hanging from someone's nose.

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

CANADIAN RULING:

Don't go looking for mucous hanging from someone's nose.

I think that's easy when it's freezing out and the mucous isn't hanging.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

I think that's easy when it's freezing out and the mucous isn't hanging.

Dude: he's Canadian. He's not going to see a contrast class.

[jaybird]

Aren't the electric game clock and the play clock electronic communication devices?

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by jaybird

Aren't the electric game clock and the play clock electronic communication devices?

Yes. Are they "coaches' field equipment?"

[Robert Goodman]

This ain't nuthin'. I don't suppose anyone reading here would be old enough to have officiated when all coaching from the sideline was ostensibly illegal.

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

This ain't nuthin'. I don't suppose anyone reading here would be old enough to have officiated when all coaching from the sideline was ostensibly illegal.

If anyone on this board was around back then, he would remember red flags instead of yellow ones, and flags in the end zone instead of pylons, and...oh yeah, the goal posts on the goal line instead of the end line. Yes, a little history freak here.