2019年9月28日 · Gene Barth told Referee Magazine that when he was a line judge, the auxiliary down box man handed him the pistol toward the end of a quarter. Barth put the gun in his back …

2022年2月4日 · From the earliest days of American football until as late as 1994, referees on the field used a starter pistol to call the ends of quarters and of games. When the leagues that …

Officials in American and Canadian football formerly used a starting pistol to end each quarter of a game. In the NFL this was first done in 1924, to avoid confusion with the whistles and air horns …

2018年12月21日 · It seems strange today, but NFL officials used to fire a starter's pistol to end each quarter. It's a mechanic that dated back to the start of pro football up until the NFL …

2023年4月10日 · To solve the problem, football officials out West borrowed a tool from basketball whose timekeepers often used a gong or starter's pistol to signal when the clock ran out. The …

2025年2月4日 · Hochuli served as the head referee for the first regular-season NFL game outside the USA when the Cardinals and 49ers played in Mexico in 2005.

2022年10月1日 · It's always a tense moment when the referee bends down, examines the position of the ball and the crowd goes crazy depending on if it's short or not. But you can't …

2023年9月28日 · The referee raised one arm above his head, using the other hand to point to the spot where the ball crossed the goal line. Pointing to that spot was vital since it defined the …

2019年10月18日 · But, before 1970, the NFL stadium clock was the unofficial time and the officiating crew kept the “real” time on the field. The referee was the first official to keep time …

2018年12月12日 · Angry Sean Peyton would probably go for the head if given a flare gun. Same for BB probably.