Who Whistles FG PAT Dead

[sportswriter]

Originally posted by Ed Hickland
Four or five man crew.
For a field goal or point-after:
What official whistles the ball dead? And, when is the whistle sounded?

Interesting question that actually says a few things about mechanics, so here's my question. In the mechanics of your area - answer me this, for both 4, 5 man crews.

Convert, short FG
a) whose watching the ball, judging whether the try/fg is good?
b) whose watching the kicker/holder?

Ditto for longer FGs.

What we do for Canadian (where the posts are on the goal line, btw) is have the head ref watch the ball for all converts, FGs inside 15; the sideline guy who can see the front of the holder watches for UR on kicker/holder. For that reason, the HR blows the play dead.

15 yards out, or more, HR has kicker/holder; HL or LJ on the short side of the field goes under the post with with the Umpire (four) or Deep Judge (five). In that case, both have responsibility for blowing the play dead.

I post these to see what responses that generates on the mechanics of the situation.