What is a 'two minute warning'?

What is a 'two minute warning'?

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A two minute warning is the final two minutes of the half in a game and basically when the clock hits two minutes, the whistle blows and we have what's called a "TV time out" and the play stops until they return from, usually commercials. If you're on defense and you only have one time out, you want to kind of manage the game the right way as far as calling your time out, because if there's 2:20 on the clock and they run the ball, you should call your time out. Because you'll get another stoppage when the clock hits two minutes so it kind of helps give you an extra time out on defense and on offense if have no time outs and you're getting close to scoring when the clock hits two minutes it's an extra time out for you too.