A Good Day To Be A Rules Lawyer

Sunday had 2 good situations to have a rule book on hand. Sadly I don't have the NFL rule book, but I think the coaches do.

First the one that wasn't challenged. In Aaron Rogers fumbled into the end zone against the Vikings. He stumbled back to get the ball, and feeling the impending sack in the end zone, shoveled the ball forward. The initial call was "Illegal Forward Pass". My initial reaction was "WTF?!"

Now, I'm told it was later "revised" to be intentional grounding. Given that he definitely broke the spirit of that rule (someone ran back for it and got within maybe 7 or 10 yards of it), and didn't get the ball past the line of scrimage (so being out of the pocket is a moot point), they're right to make a call on a maybe. He had no intention of making that pass close. But can we please not make riculous calls like "Illegal Forward Pass" on it?

Then there's the Giants.

Coughlin needs an actual rule book to throw at the refs next time he pulls that. That was a wonderful display of "Fuck you" if I've ever seen one. Manning's foot on the line there was almost like the guy getting hit by a throw to first who's in fair territory outside of the running lane who says "but I need to touch first!"...except his foot was (just (barely) ) on the other side of the line. Wow.

Otherwise, the only thing to say here? I didn't know Boss could jump.