I guess you never see everything no matter how long you officiate. We had something happen in a recent game that I have never had happen in my 36 years of officiating, and just wondering if anyone else had ever seen this or anything similar.
Only a couple of minutes left in the game. Quarterback scrambles and takes off downfield where about 3 defenders get ahold of him. He probably drags them all about 5 yards before finally going down. When they unpile, the Quarterback says he cannot find his play card that was on his wrist. Said it got ripped off his wrist while he was in the pile. Of course it is not laying on the ground, and no one on the defense claims to have it. Quarterback and his coach insists that the defense ripped it off and took it and he wants it back. He wanted us to check all the players on the other team to see if we could find it, which we did not do. They gave the QB a replacement play card for his wrist and the offense then basically ran the clock out to end the game.
