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The offending team is sent back 10 yards.
For a delay of game, the team is penalized 5 yards.
For a delay of game, the team is penalized 5 yards.
The delay of game penalty is five yards.
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The standard penalty for delay of game in American Football is 5 yards.
Delay of game is a 5-yard penalty
Delay of game is a 5-yard penalty
There are two kinds, one is five yards and there is a fifteen yard one. But the NFL took out the five yard one in 2008.
The verb is was; the verb phrase is was penalized(The whole team was penalized...)
There have been many teams that have gone an entire game without getting penalized. For a season, the record for fewest penalties in 19 held by the 1937 Detroit Lions. The 1937 Lions also holds the NFL record for fewest penalty yards in a season with 139.