Coach going across the field

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by WestCoaster

He needs to send the trainer, photographer, statistician, or one of the dozen other people who want to be in the restricted zone, but can't be.

That's the difference in our assumptions. Football is played under all sorts of different conditions. I'm used to ones where there may be a dozen other people hanging around, but they don't realize a football game is going on nearby, and the peanut vendor is there to service the people playing Frisbee on the next field.