Need a situation to fit the rule

[Bob M.]

REPLY: Not me personally, but rather to the guy who taught our rules class when I was a rookie. As snake-eyes said, the runner dropped the ball before crossing the goaline thinking he was in the endzone. No whistle. But also no one scrambling for the loose ball just laying there. But our teacher (the LJ in the game) trying to avoid invoking that rule asked one of the teammates of the geographically-challenged runner to hand him the ball. As soon as he picked it up, the LJ blew the whistle and rang up the TD! So, I guess even that wasn't really an invocation of 8-2-1c. But it would have been had the teammate not been so accommodating.