Should the NFL Start Considering Molecular Structure?

Now we know the real reason why the NFL wants to keep drafting players outta college instead of revamping their amateur selection system.

Those dudes need to have a better grasp of physics.

Come to think of it, maybe the OGs who enforce the game's rules need a refresher course, at the very least.

 

That could be the only way to get The Shield to run endless replays with super maximum mega-zoom to see if a player actually has possession of the ball at Point X.

That is, if they ever sort out where the hell that point really is.

 

The Pittsburgh Steelers' Jesse James is the latest to wonder after making the play that coulda defeated the New England Patriots.

Instead, dude was told he didn't, which definitely changed the course of this game:

 

What's left to say except Foxboro is a lovely place to visit in January.

If chalk holds through the next two weeks, should the Steelers then make it to the AFC title tilt, that's where they're gonna be. All because the ball didn't survive the ground.

C'mon. Does Roger Goodell have a white-collar defense lawyer on payroll to invent this stuff in his spare time so the officials' rulings will sound more lordly or something?

We all get that they're trying to say James didn't finish the play before the ball hit the ground.

But has a running back finished a play when he stretches through a pile so the ball breaks that imaginary plane?

What's the difference between the two?

Correct.

And as far as this surviving the ground thing goes, the technology's already here to take super maximum mega-zoom replay video to the next level, and maybe the league should.

Because then they'll realize that nothing survives the ground because nothing ever reaches it:

Hi-tech is a wonderful thing. It'll define the 21st century.

But it cannot be allowed to unilaterally define what is and isn't the true result of a play. Sooner or later, the NFL's gotta come up with a human solution to determine what is and what isn't.

And that includes trying to sound intellectually superior with word-snob terms like survive the ground.

Innovation doesn't need to be state-of-the-art:

Makes you wonder how accurate the dude who planted the back yardstick was, doesn't it?

Damn. It never ends.