OFL: Our Football League

Teams have ONE time-out per half to plan a complicated play, manage the clock etc. Injury stoppages or field goal attempts (clock stops) don't count as a time-out.

On 2-point conversions, the defense can run back a fumble or an interception for 2 points.

No blitzes are allowed on 2-point conversions or X-Point Plays.

Defenses are allowed one blitz per four downs. A blitz allows any number of defensive players to charge in without first counting to "4 Mississippi", as long as someone audibly shouts "BLITZ!". The player blitzing does not have to shout, but at least one defensive player on the field must shout it. Blitzing without yelling the word "BLITZ!" is a penalty.

Defensive players who've been drawn offside by a fake hand-off or (if blitzing) by a phony snap count, or by accident, can retreat back across the line of scrimmage and reset while the play continues without penalty. If the defense does not reset, an offsides penalty will be called.

At the end of the game if one team is losing by more than 8 points, that team is allowed an "X-point play", either a final "Hail Mary" pass after their final fourth down (i.e. a "fifth down") or, assuming they have scored a touchdown on the final possession, an "X-point conversion" attempt. Either way, an "X-point play" is worth however many points it takes to tie the game.

Teams that are down by 8 points or less must try to win or tie the game the old fashioned way however.