Pittsburgh got screwed by the refs!

[GrizzlyBear]

I watched the fourth quarter, was totally rooting for Pittsburgh. I don't want NE to have home field advantage because we all know what happens when they do...

Boy oh boy would I be pissed if I were a Steelers fan. It happened to Calvin Johnson and Dez Bryant, now it's Jesse James and the Steelers.

When the ball breaks the plane it's a touchdown. Play is dead. PLAINE AND SIMPLE. Still can't believe we're having this discussion every year. 

Change the damn rule!!

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Most pathetic and ridiculous rule they've ever come up with.  In essence NY can reverse a call at will which leads to all kinds of suspicions about manipulation of results.  Certain teams the league chooses to favor do get favored.  

One team is called for holding when another team routinely gets away with it.  Catches are reversed, like Zach Miller's simply on a hunch he lost possession.  The entire rule of how a catch is defined needs to be rewritten because NY is consistently overruling game officials on plays like this. 

The ball "moved"??  Sure but one hand was still under the ball and the ball had crossed the plane of the goal line and one hand still secured the ball on the ground.  If a RB lunges for the end zone and fumbles the ball when it hits the ground it's a TD but a receiver must cradle a ball with both hands and the ball can't move??  Ridiculous.

[riczaj01]

I hate to be the dick, but his opposite hand comes off the ball, which makes it look like the ground helped him complete the catch. The Miller one was BS b/c it reversed the call on what was well less then indisputable evidence. This one you could at least see why they did it.

Break down what happens here. 1) he gets both hands on it. 2) he doesn't make a football move, merely twists his body and outstretchees his hands as his knee comes down. 3) his far hand comes off the ball, as it hits the ground and the ball moves, even if only slightly.
If he catches and then takes a few steps and then dives, it's a catch. If he keeps both hands on the ball it's a catch. If his hand comes off the ball, but it doesn't touch the ground or move it's a catch. This is nothing like the Miller reverse at all, where there is no angle where you see the ball move, there is no angle where you really see anything.

They've overcomplicated the rules for a catch to be sure, and one of the things the NFL really needs to do is go back and figure out the catch rule. But this isn't an example.