Injury or Equipment Time-out

[kdf5]

Originally Posted by ajmc

You might want to carefully read NF: 3-5-10-a and b carefully. If an injured player is sent out of the game by an official, he must stay out for one down. He cannot buy himself back in with a charged TO. The only exceptions are the intermission between quarters and/ or over time.

That's wrong. He can't come back for the intermissions between quarters:

3-5-10a...An apparently injured player is discovered by the official while the ball is dead and the clock is stopped and for whom the ready-for-play signal is delayed, or for whom the clock is stopped. The player shall be replaced for at least one down, unless the halftime or an overtime intermission occurs. This time-out, if not charged, is an official’s time-out.

Originally Posted by kdf5

That's wrong. He can't come back for the intermissions between quarters:

3-5-10a...An apparently injured player is discovered by the official while the ball is dead and the clock is stopped and for whom the ready-for-play signal is delayed, or for whom the clock is stopped. The player shall be replaced for at least one down, unless the halftime or an overtime intermission occurs. This time-out, if not charged, is an official’s time-out.

Good catch. The underlying principle here is that the intermission between quarters are only 1 minute long, while the halftime and overtime intermissions are longer. (My guess why they wrote the rule that way) Makes sense, it goes with the principle of not buying the player's way back in with a timeout.