Gonna break the Haiku here to make a point, Mike… The rule states:
ARTICLE 7. a. Any forward pass is incomplete if the ball is out of bounds by rule or if it touches the ground when not firmly controlled by a player. “Firmly Controlled” is never defined. I know in the NFL they call it making a “football move” to denote control and if that’s the equivalent definition, it’s a Navy touchdown.
That’s not how refs have been told to interpret the rule. Every game I’ve seen has been called the same way. It’s a point of emphasis in recent years. If falling to the ground is part of the act of making the catch, and the ball pops out, it’s incomplete. Matt wasn’t going to keep his balance and stay on his feet on that play. Falling to the ground was part of the act of the catch.
If you catch the ball, have TWO feet down, then reach across the goal line you are no longer a receiver, you are a runner. Same play happened last night in Syracuse-W.Va. and it was overturned by the replay official. It should have been a touchdown, because he had control with one foot down. The call on the punt, wasn’t even debatable.
So can i take the high road and say that this is this a navy team that never quits? Or should I be completely pissed and say this a navy team that finds a way to lose?
The Birddog 
Ulcer is growing
I can’t do this anymore
Who am I kidding?
(beat Army!)
Cannot find the words
To explain this frustration
Feels just like ’02
Hey, Mike… The Alma Mater was hardly over. See ‘ya, Birddog.
I know. Pretty bad.
Normally haiku is done
By end of the game.
Some don’t go your way;
“No excuses, no one cares”;
And yet, F*** YOU, REFS
Can Someone tell me
What is considered control
On a forward pass
Rule is pretty clear
Must maintain possession when
Receiver hits ground
Horrendous defense
Plus no kicking game at all
Season needs to end
The ball drops in zone
As the season follows
Little left, BEAT ARMY!
Gonna break the Haiku here to make a point, Mike… The rule states:
ARTICLE 7. a. Any forward pass is incomplete if the ball is out of bounds by rule or if it touches the ground when not firmly controlled by a player. “Firmly Controlled” is never defined. I know in the NFL they call it making a “football move” to denote control and if that’s the equivalent definition, it’s a Navy touchdown.
Press box disagreed
Once two feet hit ground
He is runner, ball broke plane
“Firmly controlled” is defined in Rule 2, article 3 e:
e. Loss of ball simultaneous to returning to the ground is not a catch,
interception or recovery.
DVR ran out
With fifty one seconds left
Was I spared the agony?
missed kick late in game?
second verse same as the first
groundhog day again
But there were two feet returning to the ground WITH control and THEN there was a loss of the ball… right?
That’s not how refs have been told to interpret the rule. Every game I’ve seen has been called the same way. It’s a point of emphasis in recent years. If falling to the ground is part of the act of making the catch, and the ball pops out, it’s incomplete. Matt wasn’t going to keep his balance and stay on his feet on that play. Falling to the ground was part of the act of the catch.
just like days of old
early season losses leave
two words, Beat Army!
Suicide hiuku
I’m jumping off a high bridge
At least no more poems
More controvery?
Can not one call go our way?
We are snakebitten
Army-Navy is
Our bowl game this year. Oh well
Eight years a good run.
“Where are all the girls?”
I thought the same thing myself.
O hai no bowl game.
Another Heisman
worthy QB performance
done on Navy’s D.
How can you block when
You are on D (punt return)?
Turnover revoked.
If you catch the ball, have TWO feet down, then reach across the goal line you are no longer a receiver, you are a runner. Same play happened last night in Syracuse-W.Va. and it was overturned by the replay official. It should have been a touchdown, because he had control with one foot down. The call on the punt, wasn’t even debatable.
Did we yet forget
crucial punt touched by a guy
totally UNblocked
two plays before that
we lost a lateral pass
we did catch one break
Edit:
The ball drops in zone
As the season follows then
Last goal BEAT ARMY.
Better count after
Corpuscles leave in a pint
Heed me and GIVE BLOOD!
So can i take the high road and say that this is this a navy team that never quits? Or should I be completely pissed and say this a navy team that finds a way to lose?
Help!
Due to thirty-eight,
Not some “plane-crossing” question,
High hopes fade once more.
do light a candle,
not curse Navy’s dark season,
but, how? I wonder. . .
then it struck me, like
the apple that hit I. Newton –
Get Feinstein back now!