Referee complaint thread

[JS-Steelerfan]

(10-15-2018, 05:05 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I’m heading to the gym but I’m just going to address this part:

On an offensive penalty in the last two minutes of either half, there is a ten second run off OR the offense has to use a timeout, which would have left you with one, meaning that we just had to prevent you from gaining the ten yards back one time because the clock would have expired on the second try.

I’m really starting to think using the crayons might not even be a simple enough explanation for the Steelers fans on this board because they don’t understand the rules.

There are two things you don't fully seem to understand here. 

The first thing you don't understand is the runoff rule. It does not apply here.  It does not apply to all offensive penalties, but rather for those which have the intention of illegally stopping the clock.  Look it up: Rule 4, Article 7, Section 1. The main thing here is that in order to induce the runoff, the goal of the infraction had to be to stop the clock, which is clearly NOT the goal of offensive pass interference.  On any other type of penalty, the clock would be started again, if it was running prior to the beginning of the down.  In this case it was not, because the Steelers had called a timeout in the previous play.  Thanks for reminding me that they had used one. ;-)

Since you will probably not believe me on this, allow me to present exhibit A: The runoff rule applies within the 2 minute warning of each half, but in the KC/NE game, KC committed an illegal use of hands penalty (on offense) with 1:28 to go in the first half.  They did not incur a runoff, and there was no controversy. 

The second thing you don't understand is the purpose of crayons and who they are intended to help.  They're supposed to be an aid to those who write or draw with them and not those who read what is produced by them.  This is why children's books publishers do not generally print in crayon, but pre-schoolers do.  That being said, if you require the use of crayons to make your points, don't let me stop you.