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The end of the Steeler Patriots Game
Vanity ^ | 12/17/17 | a little elbow grease

Posted on 12/17/2017 5:14:29 PM PST by a little elbow grease

As a Steeler fan who just endured that game:

I only have one thing to say about the ending of that game:

As I understand the rule of a “pass catch” it is when a player 1. --- takes possession of the thrown ball , THEN 2. ---- makes what they call “a football move”. That is what determines a catch. 1 and 2.

(This rule I believe was first employed just a few years ago concerning a catch and a subsequent fumble. A catch was determined a catch if the receiver took control of the ball and then made “a football move” before he may fumble it when hit.) --- a pretty crappy rule no matter what.

Well……….. our Steeler player definitely 1. -- caught that ball and had complete control over it, then 2. --- reached out (IN “A FOOTBALL MOVE”)…… never having been touched by the other team (not that that is at all relevant) …….he reached over the goal line and as the ball was in his grasp the ball hit the ground slightly but the ball was still in his grasp.

That is a CERTAIN CATCH AND TOUCHDOWN because he took control of the ball then (reached over the goal line—“a football move”) with the ball and kept control never having been touched by the opponent. Touchdown.

1.--- It was a completed pass THEN 2. --- he made “a football move” reaching into the end zone -- that term is in the rule book. He landed in the end zone keeping control of the ball AFTER THE CATCH AND “THE FOOTBALL MOVE”. (Even if he “bobbled” the ball slightly, he had made a catch AND made that required "football move" as he reached over the goal line. ) Total horsesh*t call.

If the NFL had any balls (that aren’t deflated), they would admit they made a HUGE MISTAKE for the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft.

Total BS

The Steelers outplayed those New England characters most of the night, except for that beastly tight end of theirs.

Well……… we’ll see them later this year, and I don’t care where that game will be played, we may have Antonio Brown back for the entire game then.

The Patriots are going down the next time, no matter where it is played. (jmo)


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To: a little elbow grease
Your comment is not necessary.. This is merely about football, football officiating, and not politics.

Did you take a knee in your living room during the National Anthem? Do you use the flag as a rug in your den, do a dance on it each time your team scores?

181 posted on 12/17/2017 6:40:01 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Vermont Lt
I thought the player should have been down at the goal line because he was down

I think Elbow specified that he wasn't touched, so the knee down doesn't matter.

182 posted on 12/17/2017 6:40:04 PM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: dfwgator

Bring back the XFL!!


183 posted on 12/17/2017 6:41:25 PM PST by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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To: rlmorel
And you really don’t have the time even though it is entirely possible you have done more in your patronage to fund entities that hate America?

For some it is more fun to be outraged than to actually examine how they might culpable.

184 posted on 12/17/2017 6:41:58 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
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To: a little elbow grease

I just watched the play. Catch and touchdown. Do doubt.


185 posted on 12/17/2017 6:42:11 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: johniegrad

Don’t know but my fingers aren’t hitting on all cilenders


186 posted on 12/17/2017 6:42:37 PM PST by Midnitethecat
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To: savedbygrace

And I dislike both teams.


187 posted on 12/17/2017 6:43:07 PM PST by savedbygrace
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To: JPJones

Bring back the USFL!


188 posted on 12/17/2017 6:44:12 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Vermont Lt; Adder
The key thing was that the receiver was still in the process of making the catch, according to the rule, and that overrides the "breaking the plane" or anything else.

If you watch the replay, at no time did the receiver exit the "making the catch" mode, when he caught it, it continued in a falling motion to the ground, and lunged at the same time he was falling.

From the explanation:

"...[James] is going to the ground,” Riveron says. “By rule, to complete the process of the catch, he must survive the ground. And by that we mean he must maintain control of the football. As we see here, he does put the ball over the goal line extended. Once he gets there, he loses control of the football and then the ball hits the ground. We can see here the ball touches the ground. So therefore two things occur. He loses control of the football and the ball touches the ground prior to him regaining control. Therefore the ruling on the field of a touchdown was changed to an incomplete pass...”

189 posted on 12/17/2017 6:44:12 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: a little elbow grease
As a former Steelers fan (back in the Bradshaw era), I sympathize.

As a former and never-to-return football fan, I don't give a damn. Sorry man, there it is.

190 posted on 12/17/2017 6:44:37 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: a little elbow grease



191 posted on 12/17/2017 6:47:22 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: 60Gunner

Learn the rules and STOP WHINING! Go Pats!


192 posted on 12/17/2017 6:48:06 PM PST by dictatorMA (Allen back up again)
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To: savedbygrace

See the explanation above at #189...there were actually two reasons (explanation from the NFL) why it wasn’t ruled a catch. When you watch the replay, it is true...the guy is in the process of going to the ground as he crosses the goal line.

According to the NFL, he was still in the “catching mode” because you have to complete it down to contact with the ground and he didn’t do that.

I wouldn’t like it much either if I were rooting for Pittsburgh, but that is the rule. Like many, I believe they should change the rule to something simpler, but that is what the rule is right now.


193 posted on 12/17/2017 6:48:43 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: a little elbow grease

The Steelers weren’t “robbed.” Mike Tomlin is just an idiot. Fake spikes NEVER work. It was lost once he made that retarded call...especially after the Seahawks goal line disaster a few Super Bowls ago. The real story was the 4 play complete dominance by the Pats the previous drive. Where the hell was the Steelers D?


194 posted on 12/17/2017 6:50:15 PM PST by montag813
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To: Pray All Day

May i ask where you got that image from?


195 posted on 12/17/2017 6:51:02 PM PST by CraigEsq
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To: Luke21

Actually, it’s a reeking puddle of diarrhea and has been since the seventies.

It’s just that now a greater portion of the former fan base is noticing.


196 posted on 12/17/2017 6:51:47 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: savedbygrace
I just watched the play. Catch and touchdown. Do doubt.

It was neither, by the rules that all the teams play by. The ball moved when he landed, before he established possession, so it was not a catch. No catch means no touchdown.

197 posted on 12/17/2017 6:52:02 PM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Progressive Mafia.)
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To: dictatorMA

I agree plus the ball look underinflated to me.


198 posted on 12/17/2017 6:53:53 PM PST by Sparky1776
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To: calenel

Sorry, foot down, knee down with control, stretch forward for a football move, break the plane with control is a catch and a TD. And then the receiver with his hand under the ball with no evidence of the ball touching the ground, catch.


199 posted on 12/17/2017 6:54:59 PM PST by ScottfromNJ
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To: CraigEsq

I’d seen it somewhere a while ago, and just did an image search to find it again.


200 posted on 12/17/2017 6:55:41 PM PST by Songcraft
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