Stupid Rule

[Daddy-O]

I think we all have options on the rule that took back the Eifert TD. To me it's a rule that has no basis to provide the officials rationale to make a proper judgement.

If you think about possession, how many times have we seen a receiver catch a pass only to have it scrutinized by the officials of whether or not it was considered a catch - meaning 2 feet down and the player making a football play? In the Eifter TD scenario there was no question about the feet being down or it being a football play (as Marvin indicated afterwards), otherwise it would have been ruled an incomplete pass. If that's the case then him stretching the ball across the goal line has nothing to do with completing the catch because he is essentially a runner at that point - otherwise the pass would have been ruled incomplete (ironically netting the same result but still nonetheless ridiculous).

Problem is the NFL doesn't know how to define the rule and thus leave it up to the ref's judgement, of which they did and called it a TD. To reverse that call was complete and utter BS, regardless of what Marvin and all of those other competition committee guys say!