One Point Safety

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by GoodwillRef

It not narrow minded, I just live in a state of reality! How many one-point safeties have you had in your career? This is my 19th season and I haven't and any...so this would never come up in a conversation about football officiating for me. I would rather talk about topics that WILL happen in the game (or more likely to happen) and make sure we get those right.

Okay...let's talk about the defense jumping into the neutral zone. That happens a lot in my games. What do you do when it happens in your games?

We learn be talking about strange situations. Then, we they happen, we don't stand there with that "WTF do we do now?" look on our faces.

I have discussed unique situations on this and the NFHS fourms, only to have them happen in my games. And becasue we had discussed them thoroughly, I was prepared for it.

Finally, if you don't don't want to involve yourself in the discussion, then why not just skip the thread?

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Okay...let's talk about the defense jumping into the neutral zone. That happens a lot in my games. What do you do when it happens in your games?

Nothing until something else happens.

[bkdow]

Well, being newer to the forum, I was not aware that this issue had been discussed. I found it while reading my case book and thought it was an interesting nuance that doesn't happen every day. If all we talked about was the stuff that happened all the time, it would be boring. It's the interesting, unique stuff that happens in life that makes life interesting!

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by bkdow

Well, being newer to the forum, I was not aware that this issue had been discussed. I found it while reading my case book and thought it was an interesting nuance that doesn't happen every day. If all we talked about was the stuff that happened all the time, it would be boring. It's the interesting, unique stuff that happens in life that makes life interesting!

No reason to ask forgiveness. Most of us agree.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bkdow

Well, being newer to the forum, I was not aware that this issue had been discussed. I found it while reading my case book and thought it was an interesting nuance that doesn't happen every day. If all we talked about was the stuff that happened all the time, it would be boring. It's the interesting, unique stuff that happens in life that makes life interesting!

You missed the point (at least I was making). I think officials on and off this forum worry too much about things that will likely never happen. That does not mean these things should not be discussed. But it does make some of these things annoying when we have some conversations about officials that miss the regular or routine plays. And I have read recently many threads on just this topic alone and it has not happen to most of us even one time. You do not need to apologize, but I do not dismiss those that feel this gets silly at some point.

Peace