The NFL is never short for controversy. Ever. So, it isn't really a surprise that we're already talking about a call and the controversy that comes with it.
As people have seen, with about 20 seconds left in the game, Calvin Johnson caught what appeared to be a game winning touchdown. Now, I understand the rule. The concept that the ball can't touch the ground, even after it seems like you have control, because then it would be incomplete, I don't think that that can be the case in the endzone. How many times have we heard announcers say that once the ball crosses the plain of the goal, the play is over. The play is dead. So, why is that not the case when a guy goes up, catches the ball, has control, lands on both feet, and is then spun around, waits a couple of seconds, and then uses the ball to stand up. I mean, seriously, what happened to common sense here?
Then I'm listening to Bob Costas during the Sunday night game, saying that the league doesn't have a problem with that call and that rule. Now, I don't know about you, but that bothers me. If you can't call that play a touchdown, what else might be allowed. Maybe now you allow the fumble that happens when a guy is stretching over the goal line because the play hasn't reached its culmination. I don't know, but in pretty much everybody's book, that was a touchdown.
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