Week 1 Non-Packer Games Thread

[gbgary]

I think we lost a td last year on a similar call.

[SkinBasket]

What a fucking idiotic rule.

[Fred's Slacks]

Wasn't against the teddy's that we got screwed on that rule on a Jennings pass last year?

[Rastak]

Bears win, but they ain't scary.......

[red]

bears are shit this year. lucky as hell to win that one

[Patler]

All he had to do is get up with it.
Today's athletes are too anxious to celebrate. They want to drop the ball the instant they cross the goal line, and we see them do it too early, or not complete the catch as with Johnson.

If I'm the coach, the rule is you bring me the ball, or hand it to an official after you score. NEVER, just let it go.

Johnson made two mistakes on that drive.

[PackerTimer]

They make these damn rules way too technical. That was a TD catch. Screw the rule. Terrible.

[Patler]

It's really a very simple rule to comply with.

[mmmdk]

that's a TD - lame rule if it stands.

The rules are kind of goofy on these catches.

Hey Ras, good to see ya postin'

[red]

so much for the 49ers and alex smith being the next big thing

yuck

[Fosco33]

Man - stat line for the Texan RB - Arian Foster - 231 yards rushing and 3 TDs - against the Indy D.

Wow.

[channtheman]

Was about to post that the Sunday night lady had too much clothes on. Then they showed the miniskirt! All is right.

[gbgary]

GO SKINS!

[Little Whiskey]

It was kinda funny reading thru this thread. I wondered how the Lion/Bear td call was going to come up.

that rule needs to change. its stupid. i think that if that was caught anywhere else on the field it would have been ruled as a catch. should have been a TD.

[mraynrand]

It was kinda funny reading thru this thread. I wondered how the Lion/Bear td call was going to come up.

that rule needs to change. its stupid. i think that if that was caught anywhere else on the field it would have been ruled as a catch. should have been a TD.

I hear a lot of talk about the rule being 'technically' correct. But any rule still comes down to a refs judgement. The ref can look at that reception and say 'did he have control going to the ground and release the ball after he scored the TD?' The answer is obviously 'yes.' That walking suppressed anal fart Pereiro would have backed up the field refs call no matter how he ruled, so he is just a tool. The spirit of the game was mugged in Chicago.