This play occurred 2 years ago during a state final. Was a fan at game not on crew so can't swear this is exactly what happened but between what I saw and what was described heres what happened. Excellent game, both teams keep trading punches and finish regulation tied. Team 1 goes on offense scores TD and kicks PAT. Team 2 scores TD and elects to go for 2. Team 2 has called a timeout during this OT sequence (don't remember if it was when they were on defense, on offense or after TD while deciding to go for 2). They line up with QB in shotgun. As play clock is winding down, probably about 5 seconds remaining on clock, QB looks confused and looks at Umpire and signals timeout. Crew handled it right and ignored him. Unfortunately for B one of their down defensive linemen sees the signal and thinking time has been called stands up and enters the neutral zone before the play clock reaches zero. So instead of DOG and snapping from the 8 its Encroachment and snapping from the 1 1/2. Team 2 scores the 2 pt PAT game over. Now I'm 99.9% certain there was no intent to deceive but it made me wonder if some devious coach (and no in many cases that's not redundant) could exploit this situation. Team A's out of timeouts, near end of play clock QB loudly requests a timeout. Even if B doesn't jump some players would probably relax and if center then snapped ball it could catch B sleeping. While this would fall under the "Wheres the tee" category it would be very hard to prove, at least the first time. Naturally at the game many of the losing teams fans are complaining that it was a penalty for calling a timeout they didn't have, like in basketball. It's not but it caused me to wonder if maybe it should be. Admittedly its rare, never heard of it happening before, but in this one case it was huge.
