Re: [NFL] Colts-NE, Defensive Delay of Game?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Billones) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Near the end of the Colts/Pats game, with the Patriots out of time outs,
> one of their players was "injured" on the field.  The clock, and play,
> was stopped for the injury as the Colts went hopping mad.  After
> leaving the field for one play, the "injured" player returned for the
> key goal line stand, making the final tackle.
> 
> I had though that, in the NFL, if a player was injured in the final 2
> minutes his team was charged a time out, or penalized for Delay of Game
> if no time outs remained.  However, this did not occur.  Was I mistaken,
> or is Tags gonna have to send another letter?

There is no 'penalty' if the injury would be the 4th 'time out'.
any further injury 'time outs' for a team would result in a penalty
if the running clock was stopped for the injury time out.

Did the officials run off the 10 seconds???  That may be why the 
Colts would be ticked, but since the clock was (in theory) stopped 
early due to the injury time out, like it or not, the runnoff is 
supposed to be mandatory. If the clock was stopped for some other
reason, the 10 second runoff is not necessary