Everyone Knows What a Catch Is. Here’s How to Fix the Rule

It seems the only people who don’t know what a catch is when they see it are NFL officials and the league’s overcomplicating rules-makers. Time to bring some subjectivity back into the issue and let the officials use their common sense

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…