One of the biggest issues facing the NFL in recent years—at least as it relates to the on-field product—was their convoluted, maddening catch rule. On a weekly basis, there was a new controversy surrounding a catch or a no catch.
The worst rule in sports came to a head during the Buffalo Bills’ trip to New England in Week 16 last season, when a Kelvin Benjamin touchdown was overturned. It was the latest in a line of insane, unjustifiable overturns. Worse for the league, a linesman was caught on Tyrod Taylor’s mic expressing the same disbelief shared by viewers everywhere:
Pressure was finally on the league to make a change, and they did.