Adding Weight to Flag
 

I purchased one of Honig's white ball flag a year ago and quickly discovered it is too light.

Has anyone ever added weight to their flag? What material did you use? How much? Any special instructions?

Thanks.

Fishing sinkers, embed them in the existing sand. Available at your friendly neighborhood Walmart fishing & hunting dept.

Or order some Long Toss Flags

Better be sure you don't throw an altered flag and injure someone.

Athletic tape will add weight but not create any foreign particulates that might injure a player.

In the past prior to the lawsuit epidemic I did use fishing sinkers.

A little tape works good. We use black ball flags with the black pants and electrical tape seems to work great. Long toss flags are the best thing out there (especially for backjudges)

Agree.

I know several people who use the long toss flags that don't work as backjudge.

Count me in that group. I've got scrawny little arms and need all the help I can get to get the flag to the right spot for fouls from the LJ spot.

All one needs is the yard line foul occurred on. Why you need to rifle it 30 yrds?

Because as a back judge, you could be 30 yards from the yard line.

A BJ might have a hold/clip/BIB near the LOS and they are very far away.

Peace

If in fact you're flagging an infraction that close to the LS, why do you need to mark the spot of the foul with your flag? You should already know that the foul was (as an example) 1 yard beyond the LS.

Taken to the extreme: Why throw a flag at all? You know what foul occurred and where it occurred.

In a case like this, I launch the flag to the spot/yard-line of the foul, so everyone else knows that a foul occurred and where it took place. The players know, the coaches know, the fans know and my crew-mates know.

I'd rather not be asked, "where?" after I've answered, "what?".

Near the LOS could be more than 5 or 10 yards away compared to where a BJ might be during the play. And if a hold frees a play to go for big yards, the spot matters. And no you may not be totally aware of the exact spot in relationship to the LOS from that perspective.

Peace

Really?!?!? I feel bad for people that live in fear of the legal boogeyman.

The NFL got sued for an unaltered flag that hit a player in the eye. We can be sued for anything under the right circumstances.

Peace

There's no legal protection for an "unaltered" flag. Altering it in a reasonable manner should be fine.

I've been hit in the face with all sorts of crap -- baseballs, softballs, footballs, ice, even a BB or two. I'll take a long toss Honigs flag thrown from 5 feet away ANY time against any of this. This is sort of like stepping on someone's foot with cleated shoes: certain equipment is required and necessary and injuring someone with reasonable equipment accidentally is not going to be actionable in most states.