A weekly appearance with Paul Allen, voice of the Vikings, on KFAN addressed one item of unresolved business from the memorable Monday night matchup between Minnesota and Chicago.

The Bears, as Peyton Manning pointed out in real time , should have kicked the ball out of bounds to keep the clock on the right side of the two-minute warning. This would have operated as an extra timeout for the Bears, who at the time had only one.

If the Bears had kicked out of bounds, what if the Vikings had declined the penalty and forced a re-kick? Could the Bears and Vikings have sparked a perpetual loop of kickoff out of bounds/re-kick that, in theory, would still be going?

Fortunately, no. Per the league, the Vikings could not have declined the penalty and forced a re-kick.

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