[George A.]

I was impressed that The #1 seed offered up their time out. And even more proud when the entire arena applauded at their effort.

Granted it might have not been in the rules had we followed them to the letter. But the rules also state that the teams have to be on the field at the end of the time out. Most of the times the refs are lenient about that as well. (I know there have been some exceptions, I don't want to start a flame war here)

The referees and the scoring table figured that since we were running ahead of schedule, we would go ahead and allow it since it would be easier for them to get the timeout, versus us not letting them....neither team moving, forcing a tie, and then we would have had to wait longer.


All in all the Philly was a tremendous success, and according to our FTA (one of the best in the business) we had the best average reset time of any regional this year.