The Warriors attempted a late push but the Dragons held on to hooter to take the victory.
So the name was quickly changed to "Hooter Rangers: A Spicy Morphing Burlesque, " and the show went on.
Something his team-mates are unlikely to be when the hooter sounds in Wigan...
Needless to say, on this Christmas Eve it was less a case of "Jingle Bells" than it was of "Blow the Hooter!"
But Bradford were awarded a penalty for crossing by Wigan in the fourth minute of injury time and Deakin landed the 55-metre kick on the hooter.
And right on the half-time hooter Bobbie Goulding signalled his return from a hernia injury with a stylish try, again converted by McNamara for a 12-8 advantage.
The Colorado Springs Gazette and other media reported that Myers dismissed any notion that the Hooter's controversy played a part in his retirement in a Facebook post.
The Kiwis dominated the first half in Rotorua, running in eight tries to lead 46-0 at the hooter, before Menzie Yere and Glen Nami crossed for the Kumuls.
But it was Tomkins' brother Joel who got into worse trouble right on the half-time hooter when he was sin-binned after a push and shove on the halfway line.
The Gallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
"For those who have assumed that the controversy about a case at a local Hooter's restaurant was responsible for my retirement, I can easily dismiss that one, " Myers reportedly wrote.
There was still time for Westwood to claim his hat-trick and knock over his side's first conversion of the match, but Thorman completed the scoring with a penalty after the hooter.
But, just a minute later, there was an even bigger bonus when Witt slipped in for a second try just seconds before the half-time hooter, improving that one too to carve a 13-0 interval lead for Noble's men.
His 60 gave him the clubhouse lead, the final putt rolling in as the hooter sounded to call play to a halt due to fading light, leaving his rivals to return on Sunday morning to complete third-round play.
Hull were not without their chances, and tackles from Shaun Briscoe denied Lee Radford and Sean Long on the line, while Fox and Ben Cockayne did brilliantly to keep Jordan Turner out on the stroke of the hooter.
On the stroke of half-time the Wildcats proved that they were up for the fight when Hudson and Hughes combined for winger Neil Law to squeeze in at the corner and Graham Law's superb touchline kick reduced the arrears to just 22-20 points at the half-time hooter.
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