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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirrty Bear" data-source="post: 466330" data-attributes="member: 7145">No. At the moment of control (when the catch happens), you need to ask who's hands are on the ball? Tate had control of the ball with his left hand and never relinquished. Jennings had control of the ball with both hands initially, then only with his right hand as he came to the ground (as screen captures from an alternate angle that I saw this morning indicated). Even had Jennings had control with both hands throughout the play, my point still stands. Two hands doesn't mean more control than one. There's nothing in the NFL rulebook that states this. Regardless of what it looked like from replay, the call on the field was a TD. The other ref (contrary to what many believe) did not signal interception. He signaled clock stoppage (which is absurd, but that's another matter). When an INT is made in the endzone, referees signal a touchback, not time out. Go look at past footage from other games. You can clearly see this. With the call on the field a TD, you need irrefutable evidence to overturn the call. I don't see how that could possibly be done when you consider two facts: 1. Tate's left hand actually caught the ball before Jennings even touched it. Frame-by-frame analysis shows this. The simultaneous catch is called because THREE hands were involved in the catch. 2. Tate's left hand never left the ball. Ergo, control throughout the play.</blockquote>

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