Monday Morning Hangover: NFL Must Clean Up Its Incomprehensible Catch Rules

October 19, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Deciding whether a receiver caught a football should be more like looking at pornography and less like playing Dungeons & Dragons. 
Determining a catch should be straightforward and instinctive. It should be intuitive and a little visceral. It should not require cross-indexing, haggling, consulting thick rulebooks or trying to mesh two or more contradictory sets of definitions.
By now, you have seen Golden Tate catch a pass, turn into the end zone, take a step or two, cough the football up after a strip by Kyle Fuller, then fall to the ground as James Anderson hauled in what looked like a reception-turned-interception.
Your gut told you that was an interception. The many borderline touchdowns you watched this season told you that was an interception. A close reading of the rulebook even suggests an interception, but you don't need to consult a rulebook.
You are an adult, and you know an interception when you see one bounce from a receiver's hands into a def...

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