Let’s take the catch rule out and look at it logically—you learned what a catch is playing football at recess just like I did. And I don’t know about you, but nine-year-old me and my nine-year-old friends didn’t have many arguments over what was or wasn’t a catch.
Every now and then, you’d try to get away with trapping a ball, and hiding it with your forearms, but for the most part, it was one of those things—you knew it when you saw it. And last Sunday at about 7 Eastern time, we all knew what we saw—which was a game-winning touchdown to break the Patriots’ hex, at least until the playoffs, over Pittsburgh.