It was a question in support of officials, as in, how hard must it make your jobs to be given a rule book and then told to disregard it when an assigner tells you to?It's the game management segment of the game.
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When it's 58-0 with under a minute left in the game and the team behind has a 12 yard run because their center held a the nose tackle........ We ignore the hold.....
Happens at all levels of play in every sport.
Not one official on here expects you to understand that.
I’m sorry if I’ve offended you in some way, but I absolutely understand the example you gave, believe it or not. The specific halftime-length rule seems to be different, though. I mean, you didn’t say the assigners don’t want it called in blowouts, but don’t want it called at all. I just don’t get that and am curious if there are other rules this happens with…