Umm, I'm not sure....was that a catch or not?? It looked like a TD to me!

That is incredibly incorrect, and in no way should have been overturned.

But that is what he called.

Is that they rulled Graham had possesion before entering the endzone while Gresham did not. The rules are diferent in these cases.

Graham has a touchdown as soon as he crosses the plane, what happens to the ball after that is irrelevant whether he he drops the ball, spikes the ball, or carries it off the field.

Gresham did not have possesion before crossing the plane, so he has to follow the rules for making a reception, which includes maintaining possession through hitting the ground, which unfortunately he did not. In both cases the ruling was made correctly, whether we like it or not.

People say this stuff all the time about how “Tom Brady would get that call” and blah blah blah. First of all, the refs on the field are making a decision in a fraction of a second based on what they see. It’s basically reflex. I refuse to believe that some 45 year old ref is sprinting down a football field alongside a 24 year old NFL receiver, watching out for camera wires and assistant coaches and down markers and god knows what else, all while keeping their eyes glued to a couple of guys moving at 1000 miles an hour looking for any one of a dozen or so specific rule infractions and then at the end, before he decides whether to call something a penalty or a TD, thinks to himself “Ok…what did that secret league memo say about this team? Are they one of our favorites or not this week?” And I find it even harder to believe that they then, on review, would go get on their headset and say “Hey guys, Tom Brady’s wife is pretty hot right? We should probably just give this to him. It’s not like we’re on national TV and every single thing we do and say is going to be picked apart and analyzed to the billionth degree. We should totally give out biased calls.”

I think, by the letter of the rule, that Gresham didn’t complete the pass and it wasn’t a TD. I also think it’s a retarded rule and it needs to be changed. But that rule was in the book at kickoff that day so that’s the rule you have to play by until it’s gone. That being said, EVERY team thinks there’s some kind of conspiracy against them in play calls. Talk to a Patriots fan and they’ll say the Pats don’t get calls because the league doesn’t want them to be too dominant. Talk to a Raiders fan and it’s because the league hated Al Davis. Talk to a Steelers fan and it’s because their defense is so good they need to be kept in check. It’s always something. And that’s because NO ONE ever remembers the bad calls that go YOUR way. You brush them off. If they ever come up again, you either justify how they were actually a good call or you say “oh well, that’s the game…sometimes you get away with it.” And then it’s forgotten. You NEVER forget the really bad calls. The Justin Smith roughing the passer in 2006. Now the Gresham non-TD. If we miss the playoffs this year people will be talking about this play for a decade. So what you’re left with is a giant repository of shitty calls in your brain and no real concrete memory of a probably very equal number of calls that were just as bad for the opposing team. And suddenly there’s a conspiracy because “Have you ever noticed how we get WAY more bad calls against us than ANY other team in the league? It must be because of (insert stupid reason here)!”

Let. It. Go.