In NFL football a team that refused to snap the ball would be repeatedly penalized five yards for "delay of game" until they were within five yards of their own goal line at which point the penalty would become "half the distance to the goal line" and this distance would get smaller and smaller down to the subatomic level and then quantum mechanics would be disrupted and the universe would explode.
yea I've pulled this off in Madden before
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
Slightly derailment but, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_team_in_Tallinn
The match was abandoned after three seconds because the Estonian team were absent from the Kadrioru Stadium due to a dispute over its floodlights.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
It does raise an interesting question for football / soccer - if a player goes over to take a corner / free kick and spends too long taking it, to slow down the game, they'd get booked for time wasting and, with repetition, sent off. If nobody goes over to take the corner / free kick, who'd get booked and how would play re-start?
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
I don't know much about UFC history, but there was this:https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/2/4/3951260/ufc-history-severn-vs-shamrock-2-what-really-happened-at-ufc-9
In high school and collegiate wrestling, competitors are warned for stalling and after a fourth warning get disqualified, so I guess both would be disqualified if neither attempted to wrestle during a match.
I think the rules are similar in boxing -- neither fighter boxing would produce a double disqualification and a result of no contest.
― Brad C., Wednesday, 15 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
at some point somebody is going to post this video, and it might as well be me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6PxRwgjzZw
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link