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How is this not a catch?
Side note: LOL @ was he trying to reach for additional yardage. Dumbass announcer.
I understand that there's an argument about the "going down to the ground" rule and the rule makes sense in a situation like the Greg Lewis TD in which he's falling out of bounds. He HAS to prove that he has possession the whole way.
But I don't understand how that applies when the receiver clearly has possession, gets technically FOUR feet in, and goes to slam the ball down. So, does this mean that if a receiver catches a ball and stumbles looking as if he's going to the ground, he doesn't have possession until he makes contact with the ground? For instance, a receiver can take five/six steps, clearly maintain possession, but be stumbling to the ground and lose it and that's an incompletion? Because I always thought that would be ruled as a fumble and I feel that if Johnson were not in the endzone, that would be ruled a fumble.
But, more importantly, if that is not a touchdown, how the fuck does this even count as a score when there's no clear possession and he bobbles it all the fucking way and has possession for maybe a split second?
Side note: LOL @ was he trying to reach for additional yardage. Dumbass announcer.
I understand that there's an argument about the "going down to the ground" rule and the rule makes sense in a situation like the Greg Lewis TD in which he's falling out of bounds. He HAS to prove that he has possession the whole way.
But I don't understand how that applies when the receiver clearly has possession, gets technically FOUR feet in, and goes to slam the ball down. So, does this mean that if a receiver catches a ball and stumbles looking as if he's going to the ground, he doesn't have possession until he makes contact with the ground? For instance, a receiver can take five/six steps, clearly maintain possession, but be stumbling to the ground and lose it and that's an incompletion? Because I always thought that would be ruled as a fumble and I feel that if Johnson were not in the endzone, that would be ruled a fumble.
But, more importantly, if that is not a touchdown, how the fuck does this even count as a score when there's no clear possession and he bobbles it all the fucking way and has possession for maybe a split second?
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