In the waning minutes of the NFC championship game Sunday, a Rams defender ran full speed toward a Saints receiver, savagely plowing into him and knocking him to the ground, before the pass reached him. And yet, there was no pass interference call! To make matters worse, the defender also should have been penalized for an illegal helmet-to-helmet hit!
How this could have happened is beyond belief. The refs didn't even huddle up to try to confer and get the call right.
This is just the latest example of the NFL's incompetence in enforcing its own rules. The "catch rule" sat in limbo for several years, before the NFL finally undertook to "clarify" it so that a catch would again be called a catch. (By contrast, when baseball had a problem with its catch rule, they clarified it immediately, not even waiting for the offseason.)
There are plenty of reasons to be down on the NFL, but the shoddy way it enforces its own rules is high up on the list for me.
Up in Arms at Columbia University
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