The National Football League recently held their annual owner’s meeting in Orlando, Florida and as always the rules committee convened to discuss possible rule changes. Each year these proposed rule changes are usually in direct response to events that happened the previous season, and this year’s suggestions were no different.
This year’s most anticipated point of review was an attempt to clarify what actually constitutes as a reception in the NFL. The ‘Catch Rule’ received some revised verbiage in hopes of providing teams, referees, and fans with a cleaner definition of a catch to help prevent mass confusion and instant replay debacles, like last season.