In Week 1 of the 2010 NFL season, Lions receiver Calvin Johnson caught a game-winning touchdown pass to seal an upset win over the Bears. Until the referee watched the replay.
As it turned out, the ref decided that Johnson hadn't actually possessed the ball, it was ruled an incomplete pass, and the Bears beat the Lions. That play remains controversial almost six months later, and now it's the topic of conversation as the NFL Competition Committee meets in Indianapolis.
"Quite frankly, it's something we've talked about the last couple of years and there's an inherent conflict between slow motion replay, super slow motion replay and what we ask our officials to do on the field," competition committee co-chair Rich McKay said. "So we need to write the rule in a way as to not put our officials in a bad position."And it's not just the officials who were put in a bad position by the NFL's convoluted rule about what constitutes a catch: It was players like Johnson, who had what should have been the biggest play of his NFL career taken from him. This is a rule that the competition committee needs to fix.
Calvin Johnson Non-TD Still Lingers
Feb 24, 2011 – 10:25 AM
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