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I had distracted timers more often than inexperienced ones I think. I don't know what the issue was, but over the years, I've been in games where the timers were distracted by something for periods of time or several consecutive plays, making it frustrating working the game on the field. More than a few times it seemed to occur when the air was heavy with BBQ from the booster club concession and we knew they had food up in the press box. I have often had this thought for a game comment to the assigner, but have never sent it in...That's a good one
It would be pure speculation to presume that the powerful BBQ aroma that enveloped the field had also manifested in sandwich form in the press-box and was so irresistable and so dangerously juicy that having the timers put it down to pay attention to the game would have been cruel and unusual punishment... and when the call to duty presented from the field, neither greasy thumb nor index finger could overcome the timer switch—leaving it stubbornly unmoved and unbothered by the occurrence of a snap, a signal, or an official's whistle.
None for me!
But I did have a first yesterday, working youth football... games were played on a city-owned field, and there were two different places where holes in the grass field had been patched with...
wait for it...
asphalt.
But there is no existing spot unless the extra point is made. So no longer a succeeding spot is factually wrong. It didn't disappear after they decided, it literally never existed. So it couldn't be less accurate.
The bulletin states (multiple times) that the FCK line for the receiving team in sixman football is 10 yards from the kicking team’s line just like 11-man. But the sixman rule variations say it’s 15.