A game to remember (or forget)
 

Worked a 9 man football playoff game last night. The score ended up 75-54 and took 3:15 to play under NFHS rules. I'm curious what kinds of crazy games you have been involved with.

I worked a 47-40 game this year that had 7 touchdowns scored in the first quarter.

I have personally worked games with scores of:
66-54
82-46 (gamed stopped with 9:45 left due to losing coach not wanting to continue)

Other games just this year in Kansas:
93-60
82-0 (possibly a halftime score)
70-8 (possibly a halftime score)
70-0 (possibly a halftime score)
68-0 (possibly a halftime score)
another 68-0 (possibly a halftime score)
58-40
80-71
60-44
90-40
50-48
68-52
64-42
68-56
78-76

By the way, these are all 8-man games.

I also worked a long game this year. It took about 3:05. There were no weather or injury delays. The half took only 20 minutes and the score was only 36-34. TV games can be long.

Had a 76-31 game Friday, took right at 3hrs.

Also had a 72-48 two years ago. I think it was 21-0 before the losing team took their first offensive snap.

Had one this year. The home team scored 3 TD's in the first 3:30 of the first quarter. It was 44-0 at the end of the first quarter and 86-0 at half. Game ended 86-6.

The visitors threw a backward pass toward the end of the game and the receiver dropped it. As a home player was scooping it up (definately would have scored) our HL blew his whistle and said the passes initial direction was forward. Otherwise it would have been 92-6. He caught some grief from us over that call.

My first ever game as WH in our top league was a 53-49 shoot out with the winning score in the last 20 seconds.

Had a bowl game go to 4 periods of o/t.

Had a 0-0 in a league that do not play o/t during the reg season. Sounds dull but actually wasn't, we had 6 missed FG attempts, 2 of which hit the posts.

8-man game that ended 90-46. 3 TDs were called back and then possession changed for various reasons so it could easily have been 111-46.

It's always reassuring to know there are other officials who probably enjoyed their cold postgame beverage as much as I did after that marathon !!!

Texas plays 6 man football. It can be pretty wide open and has a 45 point mercy rule after halftime. My first 6 man game, the KO was returned untouched for a TD. Game ended 61-0 at halftime. Last year I did a game where the winning team stayed ahead the whole game, but never could get 45 ahead. Final was something like 84-59 and it took over 3 hours.

JC game this year. 56-51, over 3 hours.

Had an 8-man game between a couple of deaf schools that the score was like 85-65 and took more than 3 1/2 hours because they had an extended halftime due to homecoming. Once sat through an 11-man game as a spectator (was watching a friend's crew work that night), that took about 3 1/2 hours, being a 65-50 (or something like that) game, with a bunch of the flags flying all over the place.

Thanks for the reminder---

I had a JC game where the Visitors scored on the last play and kicked the PAT to win 56-55. The game took 5:20. Yes, it was at Palomar in the '1980s. There were 2 running plays combined, the whole game.

Had a 58-45 game early this year....almost entirely passing. 3:20 if I'm not mistaken, plus an hour and a half drive to get there or back, to boot.

This year we had a JV game (10 minute quarters) in the pregame the visiting coach told us, "If we run the ball it was an accident."

They received the opening kickoff and punted after 3 incomplete passes with the punt returned for a touchdown at 9:41 on the clock...

Insuing kickoff ran two plays, one of them complete and then threw an interception which was returned for a touchdown at 9:00 on the clock...

Insuing kickoff two incomplete passes, a free first down on a roughing the passer penalty, three more incomplete passes and then a blocked punt. Home team took their first snap around the B19 and ran in for a touchdown at 8:21.

NE uses a running clock when a team is ahead by 35 points in the second half. The game started at 6:30 and halftime was at 8:15. Got back in the car after the game at 9:30.


Last game of the regular season was a 9th grade Tuesday afternoon thriller. 8 minute quarters, spent the entire 2nd quarter inside the 20 on one side of the field. Including 7 downs with a flag in a row. The game was under 2 hours, but the 2nd quarter was a real joy to work.

Not about time, but I had a game end 0-1.

Who can figure that out?

Easy. It was a baseball game. :p

Ahhh...ye had a forfeit. Don't tell me you drove an hour and had to declare a forfeit? I hate those situations, though I haven't had it happen yet.

The only way to score 1 point in a game is a forfeit.

Rule 8-1.

Surprised not to have heard from JugglingReferee or one of the others...

I grew up in Canada, where a punt through the end zone will give the team 1 point - a Rogue. I think it is awarded anytime the American rules would award a TB (but I'm not sure about that - I don't know the Canadian rules that well anymore)

Not under NCAA rules. There is a 1 point safety.

However, I don't think a game could end up 1-0 since the 1 point safety assumes a try.

OK, I utilized a search engine available on our college's student/faculty portal, and came up with something I think that will knock your socks off as far as forgettable/unforgettable games. The search revealed an article from the USA Today on October 28, 2004, describing a very unusually high scoring 8-man game in Arizona. The score: Seligman 116, Queen Creek Canyon State Academy 108. That was all in regulation. Seligman had 1,001 yards of total offense, while Queen Creek had 863. How would you have liked to work that one???