Quote Originally Posted by Maxie the Taxi View Post
No. The ball hit the ground, at least that's the way it appears to these old eyes. So it's not an interception. I can't see when the ball comes loose. One thing is for sure. In today's football there would be 10 different camera angles instead of just two.
I can't see where the ball ever hits the ground... it looks like it is loose as they are both going to the ground, but after the runner's knee hits; and, when Butler rolls up the ball is on his arm or left side of this body, something... and his momentum flips the ball into the air - it wasn't the ground that caused the ball to jump up, it was Butlers rolling momentum.

I stopped it and tried to roll thru it frame by frame - which is impossible due to the poor technology and only 2 angles - I agree, in today's NFL we would have had 36 camera angles on it.

In the end, I don't see where it hits the ground at all though - if it's a completion, which is what I think they ruled, then it should have been down by contact. If it is not a completion, absent evidence that it hit the ground, it is an interception.

What it ended up being was a catch and fumble - when IMO, it should have been a catch and down by contact. Today's rules, I think it would have been an interception.

At the time, I remember thinking it was a fumble though, lol...