Strangest Call by an Official

Where in Canada are you now?

As far as I know the best way I can explain 1 point safety is....



Team A has scored a touchdown. On the 2pt run attempt, Team A ball carrier fumbles the ball on the 2 and the ball lays motionless (on the 2 yd line). Team B, when trying to fall on it "force" the ball into the endzone and out of bounds, since this is a try after score, they award 1 point to Team A.


I believe that is the rule in its simplest form.

This past friday in Columbus Ohio we had an official who for some reason wanted to stay at the game all night long. We are up 42 to 14 with 4 minutes to go and this "nut" starts calling every penalty imaginable. He starts calling holding on almost every play...then he proceeds to flag us for a sideline penalty with about 2 minutes left. Why throw these flags with little time left in a game that is long over??

That's why I always tell my captains.... If the ref asks, say defer. If the ref says you can't (because the other team did), say defer again. If the ref says "son you can't", he then knows to say "we will take the ball."

I always like to start on defense.

This is another JV game story. It's not really a strange call; it's blatant homering, but I'll share anyway. We run a "Diamond T" offense--two TE, iverted bone backfield, so we only flex out a WR every now and then. Anyway, our TE flexes out and asks the ref (on the other teams sideline) if he is on or if he needs to move up. The refs response, "I don't know. Why don't you look at the ball?" The ref then threw the flag on him, because he wasn't on the line. I was completely baffled, I immediately thought the kid was just trying to cover his behind, but the other TEs had similar stories whenever they flexed out. I've seen a "homer" crew before but this took the cake!

I can't believe some of these stories!!! Have any of you ever took these to your state associations? If so, what was the result?

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Originally posted by: wolverine55
It's not a reffing strange call, but last night in a JV game, we won the toss and deferred until the second half. The other team chose to kick off, we obviously chose to receive to start the second half, so we opened up both halves receiving the ball. I have heard this, or similar stories, a few times, just never been involved in one before.

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In a college football game last week, I think it was Air Force and Utah, Air Force did something like this. They won the coin toss and chose to defer. When the second half rolled around, they decided to take the wind in the 3rd quarter instead of the ball, and they ended up kicking off both halves.