You obviously have been watching too many Sunday afternoons! If you're seeing officials do this in NF rules games, they are having that Sunday afternoon mentality also. I had a white hat in NF game a few years ago who was telling me the ball needed to go back to the original LOS and I said no, it went through the end zone (WIDE RIGHT! Sorry, couldn't resist to any Florida State fans!) therefore it's a touchback. He kept insisting it needed to go back to the LOS, which, if I remember right, was about the 30 or so. Finally, I just laid it on the 20 and he said he was going to call the assignor and say that I didn't know the rules. I gave him my infamous "I dare you" glare (ask any slow-pitch softball player in town who's seen it) and went on with my business. The assignor called me the next morning, and I told him my side. The assignor realized I was right, called the white hat back and ripped him a new one big time. That was also the last time I've seen the poor dude white hat a game.