The National Football League changes the ‘catch’ rule….

Amen….

We have watched perfectly good catches be ruled no good decause ref’s maintain that the receiver has to be running to California with the ball under control….

From back in the day in the school yard to college ball?

Ya catch the ball, even if it ‘s bouncing around and put your two feet in bounds?

It’s a catch…..

Period….

The new rule eliminates the problematic requirement that a receiver who is going to the ground while making a catch must maintain possession of the football while on the turf to be awarded a legal catch. That provision was known as the Calvin Johnson rule after it came to prominence on a play involving the Lions wide receiver eight years ago. It also was invoked in the notorious plays involving Bryant and James.

The new catch rule also says that slight movement of the football while in the receiver’s hands detectable on instant replay does not result in an incompletion, provided that the receiver maintains control of the football.

League leaders say that, under the new rule, a standard of indisputable video evidence will be used to overturn a catch ruling on replay, rather than the previous standard of clear and obvious. Some within the league were displeased last season with some of the catch-rule interpretations made on replay reviews.

The new rule says that, to be credited with a legal catch, a receiver must have control of the football with two feet or another body part on the ground in bounds. The receiver then must make a football move, either by taking an additional step or reaching the football toward the goal line or the first-down marker, or must be deemed to have had time to have done so….

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image of NY Giant Odell Beckham’s one handed TD grab…CBS Sports.Com