Sep 7, 2017
It’s NFL Football Eve! I am an NFL officials and rules geek (to learn more about officials I recommend Football Zebras and to read this year’s official rules I recommend the NFL Operations site) and I learned something cool today so I thought I’d share - The 2 minute warning is actually a vestigial rule dating back to the time when most stadiums didn’t have a game clock. Prior to the mid 1970′s official game time was kept on the field and the officials announced that there was 2 minutes remaining in a half to give both coaches a heads up!
