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Um, plays are allowed to extend past 0:00 until the play is dead.

You only need 1 second on the clock to snap it.

Well, not any longer apparently.

Ummm, obviously you just started watching LSU football in the past 2 years. You can snap a ball with 1 second and theoretically run around on the field for eternity. You can snap the ball with 1 second and spike it (which is exactly what happened), but then the clock is at 0 and game is over!

So no you couldn't snap and spike the ball with 1 second if you wanted to run another play and try to win the game. You could do it if you wanted to show the whole world you were an imbecile. Now you can't, which is a good thing...However, it should be 2 seconds, not 3 seconds.

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Posted by drdrfaulkner

Butler PA

Member since Apr 2007

757 posts

Posted on 8/22/13 at 10:31 am to s_i5

So, if the 3-second rule is enforced, the time keeper MUST inform the coach that the stadium clock (which reads 00:00:03) is not the official time left in the half, but the timekeeper's watch is, and in reality reads 00:00:02:99 or less, are the refs going to be instructed to tell the coaches that they don't have time time to spike it and run another play? If this is the case, and the refs don't inform the coach, will an official clock replay camera have to be added or used? If so, adding this to the game could extend the half even more than just allowing the spiking.

Also, doesn't LSU (and other teams for that matter) dress out more than a hundred players? If so, numbers will go higher than 99 (starting at 0 to 9, then 10 to 99). Or will a third digit be added (as in 100, 101, etc., or perhaps using a decimal point (as in 98.6, 99.5, etc.)? Or perhaps the last three of the SS#. (Of course, I'm not being serious here).

This post was edited on 8/22/13 at 5:02 pm

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