Re: stall count after an equipment timeout

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Koca) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Why should it matter which team called it first when
> considering the new stall count?
> 
> ,Bob Koca

As it stands, it prevents an offensive player from making a weak call
(child running across back corner of endzone 70 yards away with a 40
mph headwind) in order to get a few extra seconds on his stall count. 
It also prevents the defense from making a call late in the stall
count to interrupt the offense, without sacrificing a few seconds.

However, in the situations you described, I think both teams would
probably agree to treat it as if the defense made the call.  I suppose
you could use the Captain's Clause to specify the rule to your liking,
if you were particularly concerned with it.  You probably wouldn't get
much objection, at least until you started calling equipment time-outs
with the stall count at 9.

It is odd that violations by the offense return the stall count to 6,
though and an equipment time-out doesn't.  I don't think I'd mind
playing where the stall count returned to 6 on an equipment time-out
called by the offense.  Then again, it isn't an issue that I've run
across before.