t had been over 15 years since I'd played high school football, and, sitting in the stands watching a game, I realized that I didn't have a good feel for how the zebras were enforcing penalties. That was before I decided to join the striped shirts on the field. It wasn't an easy learn (all the specifics of foul/penalty enforcement) for me because I had some preconceived notions about what I thought were the rules. That's where a good "rules learning" method like this comes in ... to help rid you of those preconceived notions — that just happen to be wrong!
The "foul" fundamental statements:
- No live-ball foul causes the official to sound his whistle immediately.
- A live-ball foul followed by a foul by the opponents after the ball becomes dead is not paired as a double foul.
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