Gee, And Only Five Years Too Late

by Christopher Gates on Mar 26, 2008 4:57 PM CDT in News

Came across this little tidbit from the good folks at Access Vikings this afternoon:

Indeed, What Would Nathan Poole Think of a rule change proposed today by the NFL's competition committee?

According to Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, who is co-chairman of the committee, the league will vote next week on a rule to eliminate the type of call that granted Poole and the Arizona Cardinals their infamous 18-17 victory over the Vikings in 2003. If the proposal is passed, receivers will have to get both feet in bounds and have possession of the ball to get credit for a catch -- even if they are pushed by one or more defenders.

Now, the only way a player will get credit for a reception in which they don't get both feet in bounds: If the player is "actually held and carried out of bounds" by a defender, McKay said.

I'm not sure how much this would have affected the Poole catch, actually, since any human being with an IQ higher than 5 knows that it wasn't a catch anyway and calling it a "push out" was one of the biggest horseshit calls in NFL history.

Even though I'm sure that this rule, if changed, will also come back to screw Minnesota over at a crucial moment at some point in the future, I'm in favor of it. Catch the ball, get both feet down, or you didn't deserve it.

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The supposed "Catch".

I was pretty pissed about that so called "Catch" as well. I couldn't watch the game as they didn't broadcast it here in southeast Kansas, and I was keeping track of it on my computer. It was what, 4th and 26 with seconds left and since I was on dialup and it was ssllloooowwwwwwww, I walked out the front door to talk to someone and walked back in to see that the game was over and that the Cardinals had won.

I watched ESPN or whatever damn station would show the replay, and I'll never believe that he would have come down with both feet inbounds if he hadn't been touched by the DB's.

Also, it seems to me after watching the replay numerous times last night on YouTube, he was bobbling the ball and never had control of it. Damn the luck and the refs anyway!

by BaldViking on Mar 27, 2008 6:00 PM CDT reply actions