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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
The case that differs is the one where the ball comes to rest in the end zone with nobody trying to secure possession -- like that's going to happen.
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I had a middle school game last year where A fumbled into the end zone, and there was a pile up of about five or six players over the ball. I blew my whistle and went in to unstack the pile. When I got to the bottom, there was one defender sitting on the ground next to a loose ball. Oops.
He immediately grabbed the ball and I signaled touchback.
I guess that would qualify as an inadvertant whistle rather than a loose ball that nobody is trying to possess. But it reminded me of that story, anyway.