That is what happened this past season when it came to something as simple as the catch.
Instead of making a catch what everyone knows on the sandlot growing up, the NFL turned it into a complicated list of rules that couldn’t be followed even with the guidance of a Sherpa.
This is commissioner Roger Goodell’s biggest problem to fix this offseason. He has said that he will go so far as to rewrite the entire thing — which it desperately needs.
In an age of being politically correct, we don’t need a catch rule to do the same.