Untimed Down

[bisonlj]

Thanks for asking the question. This is another example where announcers make our lives very difficult. At the end of a game a period can be extended for offensive or defensive fouls but it's not likely the defense would accept an offensive foul if decling it would end the game in their favor. One instance where they would accept it though is let's say A was called for offensive holding on a play where they scored a TD to take the lead as time expired. B's options - decline the penalty and lose the game or accept, enforce the penalty and play one untimed down. They would obviously chose to accept the penalty and the period is extended for an offensive penalty.

I guarantee you if that ever happened the talking heads would explode because they would be screaming "the period can only be extended for defensive penalties!"