Talk:Two-minute warning

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History?[edit]

Does anyone have information on the history of the two minute warning? My understanding is that it had to do with timekeeping issues in the early days of the NFL. Scoreboard clocks were not official (nor were they very accurate). Official time was kept by stopwatch. The officials informed each side at two minutes to avoid any surprises at the final gun. Does anyone have the facts?

→The facts are very simple and they have nothing to do with timekeeping on the field or in the pressbox and everything to do with money. In the late 1960s/early 1970s ABC had paid big money to obtain rights to the NFL and specifically their Monday Night Football broadcasts. ABC Sports' Roone Arledge sought every opportunity to increase the number of commercials aired during a football telecast in order to increase revenue and when that wasn't enough he invented the two minute warning as a sure-fire way to obtain a stoppage of play twice a game, every game so that more ads could air. The NFL went along and eventually the two minute warning was part of the rulebook. As time progressed reliance on the two minute warning as, effectively, a fourth timeout increased, especially among teams that were attempting to come from behind or conserve time on the clock.

I have not inserted this information into the main article as I don't have full citations (yet) but "Monday Night Mayhem," a history of Monday Night Football and ABC Sports in general, has details. --Countryroads (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The section that talks about an automatic 10-second runoff due to a player injury --does this apply to injuries to both the offense and defense? Is there no controversy here? What if the defenisive team would like to use some of that time should they get the ball back? --Jeffdb27 (talk) 00:33, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with this entry![edit]

This entry has quite a few contradictions and problems. I think someone should try to check this out. For example the part about the forward fumble (what is written doesn't make sense). Also the six fouls that make a run-off. I am sure that you are allowed to spike the ball in this case - that's when it's always done... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aditeman (talk • contribs) 14:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC) ...[reply]

Also the "Injuries" section is unclear. Does everything it says apply only to a two-minute warning period? If not then it needs clarification. If everything it says applies to the entire game, independent of the two-minute warning, then it is not relevant. Sam Tomato (talk) 20:10, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]