BC-FBN-SHERRINGTON-COLUMN:DA — sports (800 words)
PLANO, Texas — On the screens rimming a Renaissance ballroom Friday, Ezekiel Elliott hits the line, veers right and is loose. Twenty yards later, Patrick Peterson finally catches up. A moment before the Cowboy and Cardinal grapple and tumble to the turf, Elliott greets Peterson in his customary manner, helmet to helmet.
Blink, and you miss it. So Al Riveron shows it twice.
“That,” the chief of NFL officials tells his 122 colleagues, “is a foul.”
Or at least it will be this fall. Good luck with that, Al.
No sooner does the NFL rid itself of its patently ridiculous requirements for a catch than it creates.