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You're really stretching things here, but I'll play along.
If I don't know who said "BACK!", of course I can't call it. But I'll likely hang up the cleats and go get a hearing test too. These players are not that far from me, and not (hopefully) in a straight line from me - it shouldn't be that difficult to know who said it.
But the play in question has F6 saying "Back!". I assume then, for the sake of the discussion, that F6 did, in fact, say back. If this is not verbal obstruction to you (or to the two guys you are saying back you up --- of course, I've not seen anything published from either of them that support your assertion... whereas I HAVE seen and read the one quoted by Tim), then what IS verbal obstruction to you (and them)? Seems to me that this type of play is EXACTLY why the word verbal appears in the rulebook.
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