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As we sit through the quiet before bowl season in college football, I thought we'd take the opportunity here with the Zebra Report to discuss something that actually ends up giving high school officials across the nation some really funny stories. Yes, fellow Zebras, I'm talking about the fact that most people don't know many of the rule differences used among the NFL, NCAA and NFHS (that's the National Federation of State High School Associations). If you've ever been up in the crowd at a high school -- or lower-level -- football game and screamed something like "he was out of the pocket" or "that ball was uncatchable" or a slew of other things you've seen or heard on TV on the weekends, you may want to read up.
You see, rule differences from high school to college to the pros in other sports are usually reserved for field dimensions or timing rules. Everything else is usually very similar, other than interpretation stuff (like traveling in the NBA or the strike zone in MLB). But in football, there are tons of rule differences among the three levels. What you'll find many times is that high school and the NFL are different, and that college is with one or the other. Still others, all three levels differ.
So consider this a brief, layperson's guide to making sure you don't end up the butt of officials' jokes -- because to us there is nothing funnier than when being called an idiot by someone who doesn't know the rules.
I'll start with one of my favorite stories.
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