Football goal post color requirements

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by CT1

Saying only that "(t)he IHSA uses in all sports National Federation Rules" implies that they use NFHS with no modifications.

No it doesn't. It means they use NFHS and do not write their own rule books.

Of course, you already knew that.

[waltjp]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are those modifications are state adopted rules (under NF Rulebook)?

Peace

FED Overtime procedure states that the ball is placed on the 10 yard line, and there is no provision in FED rules for a change to timing rules or game termination due to point differentials. If your state is starting from other than the 10 yard line for OT, or making special rules depending on point differential then your state has adopted modifications.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by waltjp

FED Overtime procedure states that the ball is placed on the 10 yard line, and there is no provision in FED rules for a change to timing rules or game termination due to point differentials. If your state is starting from other than the 10 yard line for OT, or making special rules depending on point differential then your state has adopted modifications.

No, my state uses the same listed OT procedure that is in the rulebook.

I was only trying to make the point that the IHSA does not create their own rulebook. That was it.

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

No, my state uses the same listed OT procedure that is in the rulebook.

I was only trying to make the point that the IHSA does not create their own rulebook. That was it.

Peace

Even I knew what you meant.

[jchamp]

Originally Posted by CT1

Here's the rule:

"The horizontal crossbar and the uprights above it shall be free from anv
decorative material except paint which is recommended to be either silver,
white or yellow in color. One wind directional streamer may be attached to
the top of each upright. Wind directional streamers shall be 4 inches in
width, 42 inches in length and either red, orange, or yellow in color."

Since the rule does not specify that only one color of paint be used, and does permit paint to be used as a decorative material (it is listed as the exception to decorative materials), and since the colors are listed as recommendations and not required colors (note the difference in verbiage compared to the wind streamers) then I would have to agree that barber poles, tiger stripes, checkerboards, or digital camouflage meet the requirements, if not the intent, of the rule. If people get carried away, I could see a change being made. But painting the goalposts any single team color shouldn't be an issue, as long as it can be easily seen against whatever background is present.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by jchamp

Since the rule does not specify that only one color of paint be used, and does permit paint to be used as a decorative material (it is listed as the exception to decorative materials), and since the colors are listed as recommendations and not required colors (note the difference in verbiage compared to the wind streamers) then I would have to agree that barber poles, tiger stripes, checkerboards, or digital camouflage meet the requirements, if not the intent, of the rule. If people get carried away, I could see a change being made. But painting the goalposts any single team color shouldn't be an issue, as long as it can be easily seen against whatever background is present.

The candy cane, etc. stuff was done I believe in the belief that it would make the posts stand out more, not as camouflage.

[jchamp]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

The candy cane, etc. stuff was done I believe in the belief that it would make the posts stand out more, not as camouflage.

I don't doubt it. But that's also why we tend towards a single color now--we understand more about how the brain works now. Including that the more information that gets fed into a human brain, the less it is able to properly handle tasks that should be routine. That's why camouflage works, road signs are as simple as possible, and using the blink tag on the internet can get you attacked by layout nazis.

[Texas Aggie]

Saying only that "(t)he IHSA uses in all sports National Federation Rules" implies that they use NFHS with no modifications.

Not only a false statement, but absurd. I don't know about football, but Federation has state association adoptions for several things in basketball -- coaches box and ball size for jr. high boys to name two. Nobody would ever care about the latter. If a state did, for example, allow a ball size difference for jr. high, are you seriously saying that the COMPLETE sentence, "(state) uses Federation rules for basketball" is untrue?