OFL

Where we play

Every Sunday at 10:15 AM, from September through the Super Bowl on the Cambridge Commons, two blocks north of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. If the Commons is iced over, our secondary location is Magazine Field, next to be B.U. Bridge.

If you'd like to play, please contact Shaun, The Commissioner, via the contact form

The Field

The dimensions of the field normally are 75 paces by approximately 40 paces, depending on the number of players.

Each end zone is ten paces deep. The field has four first down lines marked by cones.

The field

Teams

Teams can have up to nine players on the field at a time, unless it's insanely cold, in which case more may be allowed to prevent being frozen on the sidelines. Substitutions, should there be more than nine players on a team, can be taken during any dead ball situation, as per usual.

Uniforms and equipment

Players need to wear black or gold to distinguish what team they're on. I bring a big bag of balck and gold scrimmage vests each week, plus we periodically get official OFL jerseys made up for regulars that want 'em. I highly recommend cleats. (NOTE: Baseball cleats with metal spikes are not allowed. Everything else is cool.)

Game times

There will be two approximately 45 minute halves, starting close to 10:45 AM. The clock runs without stoppages (the exception being field goal attempts).

At the end of one and half hours of play the team that is losing always gets the final possession. If tied at the end of regulation, the team with the ball when time expired gets to finish their possession. "Regular season" games, can end in a tie. "Playoff" games (usually January through the Super Bowl) will go into sudden-death overtime.