According to the NFL, this is no longer a catch. For that matter, Jerry Kramer is ruled offside in today's NFL, and Bart Starr never sneaks over in 1967.
When the focus becomes anything other than the remarkable athletic skill of the competitors, the sport is dying.
What I despise about this whole ridiculous call is this: Bryant's catch was a magnificent athletic performance, at the most important of times in the waning moments of a great football game. It was a remarkable athletic, balletic, feat. And then, because of microanalysis, none of which has anything to do wiith athletics, that feat is wiped out. What is next, teams hiring legions of lawyers to argue the point? A
Crossfire like program? The Zapruder film frame by frame breakdown?
The reason I watch sports is because I love the compoetition, and the remarkable athletic feats and mental strategies and just sheer willpower that is evident. If I want to watch people micro-analyzing in another bureaucratic layer of argumentation, I will turn on C-Span. Unless the NFL cuts this crap out, they will lose interest, and viewership, and eventually money. Not next week. Not at Katy Perry's Super Bowl. But they will, eventually lose. When the focus becomes anything otehr than the remarkable athletic skill of the competitors, the sport is dying. If Goodell wants to truly "protect the shield" this will stop.