When does the clock stop after a field goal is kicked?
An awful lot of them get kicked with 5 or 6 seconds left on the clock and I’ve never seen one that took so long that there was time for the opposing team to make a play.
Tonight I watched Al Del Greco’s game-winner vs. Philadelphia(?) in slow motion and the ball passed through the goal posts with at least two seconds left and then sailed out of the end zone with time still on the clock. Those seem like a couple of logical timepoints for the clock to stop but it just kept on ticking. Is that correct, or do the timekeepers just let it run out when it’s so near the end of the game?