[Husker] penalties in the red zone

[Bob Clouston (rclousto)]

I'm pretty certain at all levels, and for a long, long time, any 15 yard
penalty inside the 30 and any 5 yard penalty inside the 10 is half the
distance.  It doesn't make sense otherwise.  If a 15 yarder were only
half the distance from the 20 and in, a penalty from the 21 would be
worse (ball at the 6) than a penalty from the 19 (ball at the 9 1/2).

On that non-penalty, I don't think the ball was ever snapped.  Did they
wind up blowing the whistle?  I guess that would be an inadvertent
whistle and no play, with a reset of the play clock.  If they didn't
blow the whistle, it should've been delay of game on the Steelers once
the 25 second clock went.  Those didn't seem to be playoff-caliber refs,
did they?

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: C Jolly [mailto:jocar26 at cox.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:11 AM
To: husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] penalties in the red zone

Thanks for all of your answers.
It appears that this is a defense friendly rule since on the
Indiannapolis game, the offensive penalty moved them 5 yards away and
the defensive penalty moved them back only 2+ yards. 
By the way, the refs must have been from the Sun Coast league as poorly
as they refed.  On one of the more notable non-penalties, the Colts
jumped up at the same time, some of them going into the neutral zone
touching the opposing players  pointing at the Steelers saying they
moved.  I didn't see any flags and the the refs said the Steelers didn't
move so there was no penalty on them.  Shouldn't a penalty have been
called on the Colts for encroachment?
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