The Divisional round continues, Cowboys at Packers

[gettlemanjack]

Yeeeeahhh...This is about a rule, not a law.

And I'm pretty sure Bryant still has a job.

You're pretty much not making any sense here

Regardless, the game is over. The play was ruled no catch. No one's going to go back and change the result. So...

We all know it was a great catch. We all know an American got robbed for doing a great job. So...

[gettlemanjack]

The Star-Ledger, the largest circulated newspaper in New Jersey (11th largest state in the country):

"Reversal on Dez Bryant catch mars a great Cowboys - Packers playoff game

The world was divided on what just happened at Lambeau Field — catch or no catch, jobbed or justified — when a man not exactly known for straddling the fence on issues stepped out of a luxury suite.

Oh, just to be clear, Chris Christie would sooner have announced that he was a socialist than say he agreed with the most controversial call of these playoffs. He is a Cowboys fan, after all. But he had listened to the analysts explain why Dez Bryant's wonderful, juggling catch was overturned in a call that singlehandedly changed the game, and this was the best he could offer:

"I don't quite get it."

And really? That about sums it up.

Right or wrong, how does the NFL have a rule that would turn a brilliant athletic play — the entire point of the sport — into an incompletion? How does the NFL let something that made millions of people around the world yell "WHOA!" one minute become an aggravated "HUH?" the next?

I've heard the explanations and seen the dozens of replays. I think I understand why referee Gene Steratore did what he did after Tony Romo stunned the Lambeau crowd with his all-or-nothing fourth-and-two throw to Bryant down the sidelines. I know what happened with Calvin Johnson on a similar play five years ago.

That doesn't mean it makes any sense..."

[Mr. Scot]

Apparently the offseason stupidity is already in full swing

[gettlemanjack]

Apparently the offseason stupidity is already in full swing

says the guy that doesn't realize he is a constant stream of stupidity

[Mr. Scot]

says the guy that doesn't realize he is a constant stream of stupidity

 

Nice comeback, kid

 

Good luck arguing with the NFL.

[gettlemanjack]

New York Times:

"More than three decades ago, the Dallas Cowboys lost an N.F.C.

championship game to the San Francisco 49ers

because of a 6-yard touchdown pass from Joe

Montana to Dwight Clark that has become

known as the Catch. Now, the Cowboys and their fans will have to

grapple with what may end up being called the

Non-Catch

...

the reversal of the Bryant catch created an instant controversy"

[Boltergeist]

That Dez Bryant call was a make-up for screwing the Lions last week.

 

and I think the Packers were still owed one for Fail Mary