At a time in which almost all television is seeing its ratings decline, the last thing anybody can afford is to have confusion about its product. That is why it is an imperative for the NFL this offseason to once and for all successfully revise its catch rule, because it’s hard to watch a game that so innately involves catching footballs if you can’t define what a catch it.
While the catch rule controversy has been brewing for years now, it really came to a head this past offseason and it took one of the league’s premiere franchises, the Pittsburgh Steelers, to be exploited by it before the wheels were really put in motion to explore a more meaningful fix than previous ‘tweaks’.