Worst rule in football robs Rams of touchdown

It used to still belong to the fumbling team at the one, I think. I believe that is one of the rules they changed sometime ago, along with the no forward fumbling rule that came about due to the famous Stabler fumble.

i remember replying to a thread on a Rams message board on a rule change that you would recommend to change…… I picked that rule, fumbling out of bounds in the endzone.. i fucking hate that rule…

in addition, red flags are fucking killing me this season against the Rams….

You had 2 red flags dropped by SF that went against the Rams, i think both were the Pierre Gacon catches… to me, the evidence was inconclusive to overturn those incompletions to catches….. yet they were both overturned…. to top it off one of the “catches” tacked on 15 yards for a very questionable late hit on Hoyer by AD…….

Then, we had the red flag on the Woods TD catch that was ruled incomplete vs Dallas, that clearly was a catch but not overturned (turned out OK, because the Rams scored on the next play).

Then we had this bull shit call against Gurley last Sunday against Seattle….. to me that was not conclusive enough to show anyone that Gurley lost possession of the ball…..

I’m all for replay, but the video has to show conclusive evidence!!!

Mike Perriera, do your job!!!!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by joemad.

i don’t believe that the root of that fumble rule in the endzone was based on the holy roller play.

The holy roller rule states that the fumbling team cannot advance the ball in the final 2 min of a half.. (Like Casper did when Stabler purposely fumbled the ball in San Diego)

It’s a stupid rule because if it happens in the field of play (outside the endzone) the team must have possession of the ball prior to the ball going out of bounds… awarding it to the defense without possession because it went out of bounds in the endzone is not fair….it’s dumb….

when that play was being reviewed, I was thinking to myself, ifa Gurley doesn’t get the score, we’ll celebrate a play later because it’s highly probable that the Rams will score……… then the ref awards the ball to Seattle, we were shocked, we didn’t even see the ball loose on the play.

it’s not Holy Roller, it’s HOLY COW, the RAMS got screwed again on a bad replay call this season!!!!!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by joemad.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I dunno. I am not sure what i think about it. One the one hand, the rule makes it very dangerous for the ball-carrier to carry the ball recklessly down by the goal-line. Maybe it adds a little excitement.

Its an odd rule, but i dunno that its a bad one.

I’d like to see a new rule, whereby, endzone celebrations count as lost fumbles.

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What is the point of the rule? What does it accomplish? Honest question.

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I think it rewards awesome defensive plays like the one Earl Thomas made, and it punishes loose ballhandling at the goal-line.

It kinda gives the defense a desperate shot at turning things around.

Looks like the Seahawks D is well-schooled on the rule, too.

Like i said, its an ‘odd’ rule, but I am conflicted about whether its a ‘bad’ rule.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I am conflicted about whether its a ‘bad’ rule.

Well then, in what sense could it be considered a good rule. What does it do that might be considered good.

It punishes fumblers.

You should know by now how the WV feels about players who spill the ball on the carpet.