True, but it's usually the provoker who gets the penalty, not the provokee (I'm assuming that "provokee" is actually a word!).
I don’t see that.
It’s a sports axiom that it’s the one responding who gets called.
If 24 had called the ref’s attention to the infraction instead of pushing and shoving what a difference it might have made.
The general axiom on mutual idiocy is “the action draws the ref’s attention, the reaction draws a penalty”, ie the provoker usually gets away with it.
That’s really not true. Look at most of these unsportsmanlike conduct and personal foul penalties and you’ll see that the guy who retaliates is the one who gets flagged.
As for Porter being on the field, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that he thought their best wide receiver had just broken his neck - with the help of a drug-crazed thug.