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Originally posted by mcrowder
Indy ... suppose you HAD marked the balls in this case. Would you try to rule that only what happened to the "right" ball? I don't think that would be appropriate either, even if you knew which ball was "right". I think you HAVE to assume the team at "fault" is the team whose sideline the ball must have come in from, and penalize accordingly.
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I'm wary of assuming anything in a situation like this. I would have to see a member of one of the teams intentionally throwing a ball onto the field before penalizing either side. There are just too many things that could have happened that we don't know about.