Posted by Jeffro on 2010-09-13 03:56:05

It's because it was Shawn King. Now if the Lions had Brett Favre throwing the ball... all Calvin Johnson would've had to do was control the ball with one hand and an assist from a passing butterfly, whilst keeping the pinky toe cleat of his left shoe in bounds.

Don't blame the NFL or the striped shirts. Blame your own terrible ownership for not trying to get Brett Favre.

Posted by gjopie on 2010-09-13 04:24:31

Bitter much?

Posted by spinball on 2010-09-13 05:49:55

As a Browns fan I have zero stake in this, but that was a catch full and true. 3 feet, hip, butt and one hand on the ground tell me he was down by contact and completed landing...

My favorite quote so far about this is
This was something you never see happen in Africa......Zebras screwing Lions.

Posted by pythrr on 2010-09-13 06:47:56

da rules is da rules. dey may suck, but dey seem to be da rules.

Posted by freak_in_a_frock on 2010-09-13 10:28:20

I don't get it, why didn't a black Orc Blocker come in and hit him, and where was the interception roll? Did any of the teams get the ref?

Posted by JimmyFantastic on 2010-09-13 12:20:57

This was the worst call I have ever seen

Posted by BooAhl on 2010-09-13 14:56:44

Right call! Had my gold coins on the Bears...

Posted by Cavetroll on 2010-09-13 15:31:30

Hahahahahaha!

Seriously, this is a terrible rule. The NFL really needs to fix this one.

Posted by burgun824 on 2010-09-13 15:55:49

All he had to do was tuck that bad boy instead of putting it on the ground and the Lions win. It may suck but it was the right call. I bet CJ will never do that again though.

Posted by Mr_Foulscumm on 2010-09-13 17:19:33

Yeah that was a crap call.

That TD was a TD damn it! >:(

Posted by maysrill on 2010-09-13 18:38:03

This is like the Tuck Rule play.

The call was correct per the rules as written. What it did was highlight a particularly bad rule on the books that needs to be changed.

(Pats fan who knows we got a break from a bad rule)

Posted by pythrr on 2010-09-13 23:36:40

Posted by jimmyfantastic on 2010-09-13 12:20:57
This was the worst call I have ever seen
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Wrong. The call was entirely correct.

The rule, on the other hand, is stupid.

But the refs applied the rule, as written, correctly.

Posted by eisen on 2010-09-14 00:29:16

The rule itself is ambiguous. All it saies is that the player must have control durring the catch. It was a catch. He had control. Nuff said.

The NFL can make a rule that saies the earth is flat. That don't make it so.

Posted by Mr_Foulscumm on 2010-09-14 01:22:04

He had control over the catch... he dropped it standing up. >:(

Posted by Nightbird on 2010-09-14 04:28:25

rated one. if you wanted to complain, complain about the rule, not the ruling as it was spot on.

Posted by JimmyFantastic on 2010-09-14 14:48:50

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.

He maintained control of the ball, clearly.

Posted by Fela on 2010-09-14 17:19:08

The rule is sufficiently fuzzy to justify that call, sadly.

Somehoe they seem to have forgotten to include which conditions exactly terminate the act of falling.

Posted by Cavetroll on 2010-09-16 22:35:35

Fela said 'Somehoe they seem to have forgotten to include which conditions exactly terminate the act of falling.'

<sarcasm font> Yes, this is true. Because clearly the players feet and butt hitting the ground before the ball did does not terminate the act of falling or 'being down'. <sarcasm font>

Still I think the ref made the only call he could make. It's just a poorly written rule.