Decus
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The NFL Rule Book is approximately 90 pages long. According to the NFL their Game Operations Manual is some 200 pages long and players must follow those rules also:
"The NFL Football Operations “bible” is the Game Operations Manual — nearly 200 pages of procedures and policy for regular season games alone."
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"The NFL’s Game Operations Manual covers virtually every facet of the game and game preparation — from where visiting teams work out the day before the game to the number of towels (600) and pounds of ice (500) that the home team must provide in the visiting team’s locker room."
League Governance | NFL Football Operations
The OFFICIAL PLAYING RULES OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE are not the same as the Game Operations Manual but include additional rules players must follow. According to Time magazine one of the Game Operations Manual rules states:
"Here's what the game operations manual says regarding the national anthem, according to an NFL spokesperson:
The National Anthem must be played prior to every NFL game, and all players must be on the sideline for the National Anthem.
During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses."
Does the NFL Require Players to Stand for the National Anthem?
Sorry, you can't just declare "document X says Y" and then not be able to document it.
That document has been linked here already too. And it simply does not contain that passage, and it's not the rule book which is what the OP cited, and even if the passage did exist it would not articulate a "rule" that the Commissioner "ignores" --- which is what the OP also asserted.
So it doesn't work from any angle.
Moreover --- and this has already been pointed out too ---- if such existed it would amount to an operation using TWO (2) rule books. Matter of fact the link from NFL Operations --- which is a public PR splash --- contains a link TO that same rule book already cited and linked. And the national anthem continues to not be in there.
And you'll notice that the fictitious passage is preceded by "according to an NFL spokesperson" --- who has no name. And every page I've seen with this same story cites this "according to NFL spokesperson" with no name.
According to a Klingon spokesperson I just talked to, Earth is now a colony. I didn't get his name though.
Show me the section in the Rules Book that pertains to subjects like: "the number of towels (600) and pounds of ice (500)" or the number and type of emergency personnel required for each game that the NFL says is covered in their Game Operations Manual. I read the NFL Rules Book and its not there.
Again the NFL clearly states that their Game Operations Manual is one of 3 (three) manuals and covers:
"The Game Operations Manual is one of the league’s three comprehensive policy manuals for member clubs — the other two are for administrative and business operations, and media and public relations — and, by necessity, it is often military-like in its precision and astonishing in its thoroughness."
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"The league adds items to the manual to try to prepare for any event that could affect a game. To protect players, the manual dictates the number and type of medical personnel required for each game. To ensure competitive equity, it guarantees that teams have equal access to communication tools. And to ensure equity across the league, the manual specifies the exact pylons, sideline chain sets and locations of game and play clocks."
League Governance | NFL Football Operations
If you can't show me where towels, ice and types of emergency personnel are covered in the Rules book, please have the decency to admit that "policy manuals for member clubs" are not game rules.
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I NEVER CLAIMED that subjects like: "the number of towels (600) and pounds of ice (500)" or the number and type of emergency personnel required for each game is covered in their Game Operations Manual. YOUR LINK said that.
I don't know that this operations manual exists at all, and neither do you, or if it does exist what's actually in it. It's not a public document, and it's not what was linked in the page from "NFL Operations" -- which is clearly a public document and does not call itself an "operations manual".
You're arguing with your own link here.
"Show me where it says" is exactly what I've been saying since POST TWO. And no one can do it.
Your argument hinges on your claim that a Game Operations Manual doesn't exist - the only document that exists is the NFL Rule Book.
The NFL states on its website that a Game Operations Manual exists and that it covers things like ice, towels and types of medical personnel.
Can you agree that a Game Operations Manual exists or is the NFL lying?
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Give it up.
'at least 3 posters have slapped him silly on this topic, and all they've done is hurt their hands.
He's wrong, he probably knows he's wrong, but he'll never admit it.
Lost cause
Sadly I have to agree with you.
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