Re: It's a choice.

Jim R. wrote:
> 
> >Color me a rules guy. What can I say. 3-2-2 says no more than four captains
> and no other team personnel. That is how we do it. Are you saying coaches don't
> count as team personnel?>
> 
> Color me a practical official who picks his battles carefully..


I also choose my battles carefully. I make my choices, in a way, that if
someone shoves a rule book in my face, what it says to do, is how I do
it.

> 
> Actually, 3-2-2 only restricts team personnel *on the playing field*, and even
> then they can be either in the team box or "well away from the vicinity of the
> toss."

OK this should be good. How can this be interpreted to read that a coach
who is "well away from the toss" is making the choices? Does he have to
shout, from thirty yards away? It pretty clearly states that only the
captains can be present at the toss. 


> 
>  On the occasions when I have been asked to hold the toss early, it has always
> been OFF the field.
> 
> Jim Rosenfeld
> 
> God Bless the
>     U. S. A.