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2016 PLAYING RULE PROPOSAL
NO. 7a
Ame
nd Rule 15, Section 2
(
Instant Replay
, pg
s
.
63
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64
)
to reflect the following
:
The League will employ a system of Instant Replay Review to aid officiating as defined below.
The following procedures will be used:
Article 1. COACHES’ CHALLENGE.
In each game, a team will be permitted two challenges
that will initiate Instant Replay reviews. The Head Coach will initiate a challenge by throwing a
red flag onto the field of play before the next legal snap or kick. Each
challenge will require the
use of a team timeout. If a challenge is upheld, the timeout will be restored.
A challenge will
only be restored if a team is successful on both of its challenges, in which case it shall be
awarded a third challenge, but a fourth
challenge will not be permitted under any circumstances.
A team may challenge any reviewable play identified in Article 5 below, except when the on
-
field ruling is:
(a) A score for either team,
(b) an interception,
(c) a fumble or backward pass that is
recovered by an opponent or goes out of bounds
through an opponent’s end zone, or
(d) a muffed scrimmage kick recovered by the kicking team.
A team may not challenge a reviewable play:
(a) After the two minute warning of each half,
(b) thr
oughout any overtime period,
(c) after committing a foul that delays the next snap, and
(d) after exhausting all of its challenges or timeouts.
If a team initiates a challenge when it is not permitted to do so, it will be charged a timeout.
Penalty: For
initiating a challenge when a team has exhausted its timeouts: Loss of 15
yards.
Article 2. REPLAY OFFICIAL’S REQUEST FOR REVIEW.
A Replay Review will be
initiated by a Replay Official from a Replay Booth comparable to the location of the coaches’
booth
or Press Box when the on
-
field ruling is:
(a) A score for either team,
(b) an interception,
(c) a fumble or backward pass that is recovered by an opponent or goes out of bounds
through an opponent’s end zone, or
(d) a muffed scrimmage kick r
ecovered by the kicking team.
A Replay Review will be initiated by a Replay Official:
(e) After the two minute warning of each half, and
(f) throughout any overtime period.
There is no limit to the number of Replay Reviews that may be initiated by the Re
play Official.
His ability to initiate a review will be unrelated to the number of timeouts that either team has
remaining, and no timeout will be charged for any review initiated by the Replay Official.
The
Replay Official must initiate a review before th
e ball is next legally put in play.
The Replay Official and designated members of the Officiating Department at the League office
may consult with the on
-
field officials to provide information on the correct application of
playing rules
,
including approp
riate assessment of penalty yardage, proper down, and status of
the game clock.
Article 3
. REVIEWS BY REFEREE
.
All Replay Reviews will be conducted by the Re
feree on
a field
-
level monitor
after consultation with the covering official(s).
During the review, the
Referee will consult with designated members of the Officiating department at the League office.
A decision will be rev
ersed only when the Referee has
clear and obvious
visual
evidence
available to him that warrants the change.
Each
review will be a maximum of 60 seconds in length, timed from when the Referee begins his
review of the replay at the field
-
level monitor.
All reviewable aspects of the play may be examined and
are subject to reversal,
even if
not
identified in a coach’s
challenge or if not the specific reason for a Replay
Official’s
request for
review.
Article
4
.
NON
-
REVIEWABLE PLAYS.
The following play situations are not reviewable
:
(a)
Fouls, except for Article 5 (g) below
.
(b) Spot of the ball and runner:
(1)
Runner ruled down by defensive contact or out of bounds (not
involving
fumbles or the line to gain).
(2)
The position of the ball not relating to first down or goal line.
(3
) Whether a runner’s forward prog
ress was stopped before he went out of bounds
or lost
possession of the ball
.
(4) Whether a runner gave himself up.
(c) Miscellaneous:
(1) Field Goal or Try attempts that cross above either upright without touching
anything.
(2) Erroneous whistle.
(3)
Spot where
an
airborne ball crosses
the
sideline.
(4)
Whether a player was blocked into a loose ball.
(5)
Advance by a player after a valid or invalid fair catch signal.
(6)
Whether a player created the impetus that put the ball into an end zone.
Article
5
. REVIE
WABLE PLAYS
.
The Replay System will cove
r the following play
situations
:
(a
) Plays involving possession
.
(b
)
Plays involving
touching
of either the ball or the ground.
(c
)
Plays governed by the goal line
.
(d
) Plays governed by
the boundary lines.
(e
) Plays governed by the line of scrimmage
.
(f
) Plays governed by the line to gain.
(g
) Number of players on the field at the snap
, even
when a foul is not called
.
(h
) Game administration:
(1
) Penalty enforcement.
(2
) Proper down.
(3
) Spot of a foul.
(4
) Status of the game clock.
I
n situations in which time
is deemed to have expired
during or
after the last play of the first or second ha
lf, or of an overtime
period in the preseason or regular season, or of an
overtime half in the
postsea
son, a
timing error is defined as having occurred only when the
visual evidence demonstrates that more than one second should be put
on the clock.
In the first half, time shall be restored only if the addit
ional play will
be a snap from
scrimmage. In the second half, time shall be res
tored
only if it is a one
-
score
game
(eight points or less), and the additional
play wi
ll be a snap from scrimmage by
the team that is behind in the
score, or by either team if the score is tied.
A correction of a timing
error for a team timeout may
be made only if there is visual
evidence
of an
official’s signal.
If an on
-
field ruling of a dead ball (down by contact, out of bounds, or incomplete forward
pass) is changed, the ball belongs to the recovering player at the spot of the recovery, and any
advance is nullified.
The recovery must occur in the continuing action following the loss of
possession.
If the ball goes out of bounds in an end zone, the re
sult of the play will be either a
touchback or a safety.
If the Referee does not have clear and obvious visual evidence as to which
player recovered the loose ball
, or that the ball went out of bounds, the ruling on the field will
stand.
These reviewabl
e play situations are explained in further detail in the Instant Replay Casebook.

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The Replay Official and designated members of the Officiating Department at the League office may consult with the on-field officials to provide information on the correct application of playing rules, including appropriate assessment of penalty yardage, proper down, and status of the game clock.

(h) Game administration:
(1) Penalty enforcement.
(2) Proper down.
(3) Spot of a foul.
(4) Status of the game clock.