Not related to play on the field but management of the game.
Do the officials have the right to limit personnel on a sideline for safety reasons? Saw this on tape and think it is a very unsafe situation and maybe the crew should have said something. In the tape I see a baby in a stroller and a mom on the sideline watching a good chunk of a game yards away from the field. Also a player in a wheel chair very close to the field. While not a NFL sideline the action is fast, the kids are big wearing hard pads, and these players are instructed to play to the whistle which means the action carries over past the white lines many times. Nobody under 7 or physically unable to move on their own should ever be on a varsity football sideline, all it takes is that one quick play and that baby could have a 200 lbs. LB running full boar at him/her with nothing but a mom between it and a very serious health situation. In my job I have been on many NFL sidelines and it is insane how fast 300 lbs guys can move with no regard to anything but the job on the field. The guys I worked with gave me a detailed run down of the rules every game with 1A being always watch the action no matter where it is on the field and 1B know where the bail out area is incase the action comes to you.
Could play be stopped and someone speak with the folks to leave the field or is that outside the bounds of the official's responsibilities?
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