More Richard Waldrup: 1995 AFCCG

[jeemie]

Steelers beat the Colts to go to Super Bowl XXX.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soFwZWJ6_T4[/youtube]

Interesting thing that I never noticed in all these years until watching it just now.

Ernie Mills' catch (play starts at 2:02:20) that set the Steelers up at the one yard line for the winning TD?

Would have been incomplete by today's rules...he dropped it as he hit the ground.

But it counted then...and Mills saved us twice that day- caught the ball at the one, and also broke up a sure interception by Quentin Coryatt a few plays earlier that would have finished the Steelers.

Enjoy the heart-stopping action all over again.

[Obviously]

This game should have been a blowout in favor of the Steelers. The Colts come into TRS all banged up. Faulk isn't playing. It nearly turns into another Cowher AFCCG failure in Pittsburgh. Yep, you're right Jeemie. Mills did save the day on more than one occasion.

[jeemie]

This game should have been a blowout in favor of the Steelers. The Colts come into TRS all banged up. Faulk isn't playing. It nearly turns into another Cowher AFCCG failure in Pittsburgh. Yep, you're right Jeemie. Mills did save the day on more than one occasion.

And then he got injured in the Super Bowl- grr...

[Legacy User]

It's amazing watching that game.

No slo-mo high def replays allowing the announcing crew to "question" whether something was a catch or interception.

Just - "what a play", and both teams line up for the next play.

Now - we get a high def replay and an "explanation" given by an announcing crew influenced by what the league wants us to think we saw. It's a load of crap.

[Nick79]

Ernie Mills' catch (play starts at 2:02:20) that set the Steelers up at the one yard line for the winning TD?

Would have been incomplete by today's rules...he dropped it as he hit the ground.

A couple weeks ago, NFLN was showing last year's loss to TB, and there was a play where Wheaton caught a pass, took 2 steps and as he was falling out of bounds the ball was stripped from his hands. They said it was a completion! Since he caught it in bounds and made a "football move" I was kind of shocked by that. I was at this game so hadn't seen the replays etc. So why do you have to hold the ball through falling down in the end zone? Am I wrong that it seems the rules are different for inside vs. outside the end zone? Why can't you catch a pass in the end zone, take 2 steps, fall down and lose the ball then, like "the ground causing the fumble" and have it still count as a TD?

[jeemie]

Ernie Mills' catch (play starts at 2:02:20) that set the Steelers up at the one yard line for the winning TD?

Would have been incomplete by today's rules...he dropped it as he hit the ground.

A couple weeks ago, NFLN was showing last year's loss to TB, and there was a play where Wheaton caught a pass, took 2 steps and as he was falling out of bounds the ball was stripped from his hands. They said it was a completion! Since he caught it in bounds and made a "football move" I was kind of shocked by that. I was at this game so hadn't seen the replays etc. So why do you have to hold the ball through falling down in the end zone? Am I wrong that it seems the rules are different for inside vs. outside the end zone? Why can't you catch a pass in the end zone, take 2 steps, fall down and lose the ball then, like "the ground causing the fumble" and have it still count as a TD?

I think the football move is what they count...if you're in the act of falling down right when you catch the ball, then if you lose possession of it- in the end zone, in the field of play, or OOB, then it's not a catch.

But you are correct it is a huge judgment call, and reasonable people can disagree.

People here thought Dez Bryant with the football when he lost it in the NFCDG against the Packers, and therefore his catch should have stood. I disagreed- I didn't think it was a move.

We know we're in trouble when we can't even all agree on what is a catch and what isn't.

I'm just glad Mills' catch was a catch by the rules back then.

I'm also glad that in 1995, instant replay had been (temporarily) done away with because otherwise Kordell Stewart's TD would not have stood since he went OOB and then back in to make the catch (you can't be the first person to touch the ball when you've done that). Of course, in my mind, that missed call was balanced out by the missed DPI call that should have been made on a ball Stewart didn't catch earlier in the game because he was rocked by the defender before he touched the pass...but in a replay world, that non-call couldn't have been overturned (penalties, except for things like 12 men on the field, aren't reviewable).

We have let the rules take away from the enjoyment of the game.

[Nick79]

In the end zone, the whole football move gets thrown out the window doesn't it? You can't lose the ball at all, if you take 3 steps after catching it and fall down and lose the ball they say incomplete. In the end zone the ground can cause the fumble and the incompletion. Personally, I'd rather liberalize the catch rules, make the easier, not harder LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS.