If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball after he touches the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete. Im neither teams fan, but this was a horrible call. The receiver embraces the ball with two hands and the ball clutched to his chest. He has enough control of the ball to transfer it to his left hand so that he can reach out for the goal line. You cant do that if you do not have control. The ball hits the ground and it should be down right there. Applying this to the rule, the ball was already caught and under control. The receiver was no longer in the act of catching a pass. He was in the act of advancing the ball. It was a legal catch. I wonder how the call would have gone had the ball broken the plane of the goal line. Would they really have overturned a TD? This stuff is killing pro football.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:35:28 +0000
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