Yes, just cost me 6 points in fantasy:) Complete BS.
i agree....make up your mind, itz an auto td as soon as the ball breaks the plane of the goaline, OR ITZ NOT...
When the NFL had their first big walk out and because of their UNION years back I stopped watching pro football. Besides, like pro basketball it is full of dumb thugs. If there was no more football tomorrow I would not notice.
It seems silly that as a taxpayer I have had to pay for stadiums to be built. In many ways the owners of NFL franchises are like Solyndra. They can’t run their businesses without what are effectively outright grants but the free money continues forever which makes some of them worse than Solyndra.
>>>They just called a Bengals play not a TD even though the player was plainly in possession, steps into the endzone, then drops the ball after he’s knocked to the ground!
Pass play? On pass plays, they have to keep the ball all the way through hitting the ground.
How come, if the runner dives into the corner of the end zone and reaches with the ball to get it inside the pylon while the player himself never lands in the end zone, it's a TD?
But if the receiver is also inside the end zone and leaps up to catch the ball, and does catch it inside the plane of the endzone but lands outside the plane, it's not a TD?
-PJ
Actually, the worst rule in sports, is the college basketball rule where you can call time out as you’re flying out of bounds.
Did you bet the over or the under?
PACKERS ARE 10 & OH!!
Football is starting to seem like a stupid sport to watch.
The officials and players both seem like a bunch of jerks.
The announcers speak like they are drinking adult beverages.
The fans are all drunk too. Football is just another reason to drink!
This is why I watch soccer.
You can put me down as sick of it too.
But then you can put me down as sick of a bunch of overpaid, spoiled brat entertainers who get paid millions to put on their entertainment in a multi gazzilion dollar facility for which I had to help pay for through my tax dollars so the owners of these entertainment companies (football teams) can have a place to put on their shows and make more money.
When is the government going to buy ME a place to do business?
(Oops! Did I just go on a rant??? LOL)
>>even though the player never set foot in the endzone<<
“Setting foot” in the end zone has never been part of the rule in any rules code. Not sure what you are arguing. Do you not like tennis being played with nets? Basketball with a round ball? Car racing with cars with tires? About as silly.
>>These rule changes are BS<<
You never referred to any actual changes.
>>the player was plainly in possession, steps into the endzone, then drops the ball after he’s knocked to the ground<<
Then by definition, he wasn’t in possession. And even if he was, it didn’t meet the definition of a catch. I’m not sure why that’s irritating. What would your proposed definition of a catch be?
>>How come, if the runner dives into the corner of the end zone and reaches with the ball to get it inside the pylon while the player himself never lands in the end zone, it’s a TD?<<
Because the ball crossed the plane of the line in player possession. TD. The goal line actually runs out of bounds as well. However, if the ball crosses the extended goal line, the player must at least touch in bounds or the ball is placed where it went out of bounds.
>>But if the receiver is also inside the end zone and leaps up to catch the ball, and does catch it inside the plane of the endzone but lands outside the plane, it’s not a TD?<<
It isn’t in player possession nor is it a catch until he lands. Makes perfect sense.
>>I saw two plays last weekend where the offense runs out of bounds right before the pylon and holds the ball at extended length and THEY CALLED IT A TD!!!<<
What is surprising? It is a correct call!
>>I just think a good effot should get it’s due, not some deal where if you have longer arms than somebody else you can score more TD’s because you can reach farther!<<
You probably won’t be invited on the rules committee!
There are some quirky rules, but none listed here are.
Either make the same standard apply to the sidelines or stop ‘break the plane’ at the goal line.
You can fly over the corner and into the sideline and its still a TD without ever touching the ground, but you need 2 feet in otherwise? How is that consistent?
I’ve always wondered about it.
I’m a Ravens fan, and I have to agree with you that that should have been ruled a touchdown. I’ll take it, though, because we’ve been robbed by bad calls, too. I guess it all comes out in the wash.
If you’re carrying the ball, it seems like the faintest shadow of a scintilla of the ball approaches the aura of the goalline - or the pylon - and it’s a touchdown. But if it’s a pass play you must show full possession of the ball into the following week or it is not a touchdown.
I agree that I don’t like the rule but if they are fair with everybody, I suppose I am okay with it.
The second rule is that - if it’s really close, the home team will get the call unless it’s in Houston or against Pittsburgh. The Steelers *always* get the call - they’ll just get fined later.
They shouldn’t have planes on the field. What will the FAA say about this rule?
Boy are you ever right. It’s called a TOUCHDOWN. That means you have the ball and can touch it down. If you can’t do that then it’s not a score.
They have been talking about breaking the plane of the goal line at least since I was 8, so unless you’re talking about a rule change that took place 35+ years ago...
Now defining exactly what is a catch is something they have been trying to nail down for while, and I’m still not sure they have it right.