01-17-2022, 03:45 AM
This one reminds me of when Marvin stormed onto the field to throw an "illegal" challenge flag because the opposing defense had just gotten away with running a down with 12 men on the field. The refs were going to let it go, but had to sort of fudge the rules to go back and correct it. If the letter of the rule is flagrantly stupid, and may affect the outcome of the game, I could see reasonable leeway with something like this. The whistle pretty obviously did not affect the play itself.
