Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
The two-minute warning is pretty silly when you think about it. It's a clock stoppage at an arbitrary point in the game which was initiated by neither team. Why not stop the clock with 11:00 left in the 3rd quarter? Or with 3:44 left in the 2nd quarter. Here is the origin of the rule:
There's no logical need for the free time-out anymore. I'm going to start a petition to send to Goodell.Who's with me?In the early days of the NFL, the official game time was kept by a member of the officiating crew, with the stadium clock being unofficial. Its purpose was a checkpoint to ensure that the teams knew how much time remained in the game. Since the late 1960s, the NFL stadium clock has been official.