According to Pereira, it is.
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UPDATED OCT 20, 2013 5:51 PM ET
How about this: The first time a penalty has been called in the history of the National Football League turns out to be a game-deciding penalty.
Here was the situation: The New York Jets lined up to take a 56-yard field goal on fourth-and-7 in overtime. The kick goes wide left, but a penalty is called on New England’s defensive tackle Chris Jones for unsportsmanlike conduct.
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The series is extended and the Jets end up hitting a game-winning field goal four plays later.
For the 2013 season, the league looked at extra points and field goal tries as they were concerned about the safety of offensive linemen who are blocking the defenders.
The league made two adjustments:
• First they said the defensive team could not overload one side of the center with more than six players.
• They then addressed a situation that they had been talking about for years when they decided to not allow the defensive team to push one of their teammates into the offensive formation.
It makes no difference where you are originally lined up - Rule 9-1-3, the new rule, says "Team B players cannot push teammates on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation." That’s exactly what happened in this play.
I’m sure the league would rather the first call in history of this rule would not have been at this point in the game with these ramifications, but it is the rule. It’s a player safety rule that was put in to protect offensive linemen.