There is no rule stating that the player “must come to a rest”. That is something you are fabricating. I actually wanted the Colts to win so I’m not biased either. According to the rule you posted, a second act of securing the ball completes the pass. That happened. It was in the end zone. Good 2-pt conversion. The instant the ball crosses the plane or is in the endzone during a completed pass it’s play over. That happened. It was clear as can be on the video replay.

dream on pony boy. Call reversal was correct. Try reading the rule AGAIN

Can BigBlueShow be any more biased??? How about you just make it obvious that you wanted the Colts to win! You obviously did not watch that whole play! It was obvious Lance Moore regained possession of the ball after hitting the ground. The ball did not hit the ground. He regained full possession of the ball until it was kicked out of his hands. He had possession of it when he crossed the plane anyways so that should have been the end of the play anyways. It really does not matter because he had full possession once again before it was kicked out. This was one of the best called Super Bowls in awhile when it comes to the officials. It’s a shame you were too biased to see that!

I am a raving lunatic of a Colt fan, and even I can say that was a catch. Lacey kicked the ball out when Moore had clear control. Words can only go so far in describing every possible situation for a catch, but you know one when you see it. That was a freaking amazing catch-

Is it so important in football to individually call out every call you don’t like?

Especially since the play had absolutely no impact on the game? The Colts would still have to make a Touchdown afterward, they just wouldn’t be playing for a tie. It was either lose or win at that point.

It’s hard to not look bitter when doing that. It doesn’t do any favor forthe game of football either. Looks like a lot of people are not going to be satisfied until a team of video booth referees, lawyers and accountants review every play in a football game. It’ll take 8 hours to finish a game. Football is teetering on the edge of becoming boring now, with the endless delays. I’ll bet at that point, instead of crying about the refs, every time a call goes against whoever you are rooting for, you’ll want the rules changed. We saw it this season when the Viking fans started complaining that the sudden death playoff is so terrible. They want the rule changed so that Farve gets to go back out again.

Anyhow, as I read the play, he had it, in his hands when crossing the goal line, then bobbled it after he hit the ground. But in the end, it made no difference, Saints would have beat the Colts by 2 less points.

The fact that colts fans here on the whole are defending the catch speaks very highly of your fan base. You guys have a class organization, and I pull for you all year except when we play you.

Good luck next year.

Was the playcalling, not trying to score with 2 minutes left in the half, and our kick return teams being a joke every year. Next year is gonna be great, but we just lost. Do I think the world and the NFL wanted the Saints to win? Yea, but, if we had played any sort of good outside of Joseph Addai, it wouldn’t have mattered.

It was a catch. He regained control while on the ground and the ball broke the plane.

Are you frekin kidding me?!?! Did we not watch the same game? The guy had complete control of the ball! Hell, he even rolled on his back,upside down with the ball breaking the plane and the only reason he lost control is b/c the defender knocked it out of his hands. The saints get all the way to the superbowl and still can’t get their props.I guess they have to do it again next year for people to stop saying" Are the New Orleans Saints for real?"

since the colts only lost by 2 points…oh wait.

According to your own argument, the rule states, “If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete.” This is what happened. Once across the plain of the goal line with the re-control of the pass it is complete. It’s all good! Geaux Saints!

“If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete.”

lance moore did that. he lost control of the ball, but he regained it before it hit the ground and still broke the plane. the colts DB kicked it out of his hand. 2 pt was good. saints won. deal with it.

Not a fan of either team, but looked clear to me that he had control of the ball and was stretching across the goal line. The Saints won by 14 points and were the luckier, healthier and outright better team on that day.

I’m much more skeptical of the “catch” at the end of the NFC title game. Looked like he trapped it. Saints were super lucky to even be in the superbowl, the Vikings had everything go wrong that could(watched that game with a Vikings fan… it was HILARIOUS)… but hey, congrats Saints.

yo people it doesnt even matter if it was good or not. actually forget that play because if you took 2 points off the saints score it would be 29-17 and they still win!

 As a fan of football I want too tell y’all fellas something,Yesterdays game was truly one of the best Superbowl’s I have ever had the pleasure of watching, Two great Teams, with great coaches, and great players, Now I am a Lifelong Cowboys fan, and have saw some great players play this game. The call in question here IMO was called right by the booth,And I am glad it really had no bearing on the outcome of the game, To all you Colts Fan I say congrats on Another Great season. And to you Saints fans I say Job well Done!!!!

The call was correct….why attempt to “tarnish” the Saints victory.?….even the Colts conceded that the call was correct. New Orleans simply kicked the Colts butt to become Superbowl/World champions. New Orleans was too clever for the “way too cocky” Colts.
The saints proved all the “haters” wrong!

It was the right call. And the Refs explained it perfectly, unless you happen to be someone who doesn’t WANT to understand. The guy hit the ground while the ball was still in the air, and regained possession with the ball in the endzone.

that had to be one of the best catches ive ever seen.. Replay ruling was excellent.. I am a Patriots fan first, then an avid football fan. I am happy the saints won. They were the best team all year, they are the best team now, they will be the best team until 2010 reg season thursday night kickoff. Typical colts fans crying about calls.. You should be crying about Peyton’s moronic pass to wayne that went for a pick 6. Im sure your ownership will get with the NFL Comm and have some more rules changed like he did with the 5 yard chuck rule. Thats right sports fans, it was the colts who cried about recievers being hit leaving the line of scrimmage, not the Vikings. The “colts”, “fans”, “owners”, “manning”, all cry babies… who was calling the plays for them, Addai averaged 13 ypc in the 1st half, got 5 carries in the second.. LOL.. LOL.. Manning choking like usual makes me happy.

This may have been the call that changed the momentum of the game, it sure changed the outlook of the people I was watching the game with. “Our” Saints never GET the call. This call may be debated for a long time….but when it’s all said and done….“our” boys won the game. We won with dignity. There plane should be on the ground now….let the real celebrating begin. There’s still time come celebrate with us…..even if you were rooting for our native son Peyton Manning. It was great to see us win….but it’s kind of sad that we had to beat one of our own to do it……everybody should come celebrate with us.

After impressive defeats over good defensive teams in Baltimore and New York, I never thought that it would be the offense of the Colts that would let the team down.

Tough break!

As soon as a player has control of the ball and it breaks the plane of the goal line, the ball is dead and it is a touchdown. That rule applies to youth, high school, college, and pro ball at any level. I don’t know where the hell some of you guys come off thinking you know the rules when you don’t. As a licensed football official of 15+ years, it astounds me how many of you clowns get on a public forum and bash officials when you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Replay did exactly what is was put in to do…get the right call. Which it did.

This article makes you look like a clown….that’s why you’re not writing for SI or Sporting News.

Go write about something you know about….

For some reason you think that even though you you used the word “conversation” in your TITLE when the term is clearly “conversion” that people will still listen to you. Not this chick. You need to grown up and get your facts straight.

Firstly just let me say that I am not a supporter of either team, and as a visitor to your shores, the only reason for watching the game was that my wife,a Vikings supporter, insisted that we watch the game as she was hoping for some divine retribution for the Saints who had killed the dream of her beloved Vikings appearing in the SB. So I do not have any particular biase towards either team.There seems to be a lot of debate as to the validity of the 2 point conversion and the overriding sentiment seems to be that it did not matter as the winning margin was some 14 points anyway. The point, I believe, is that had the original on field decision stood, the whole dynamic of the following minutes would have changed, not saying that the outcome would have been any different, but we will never know. This would explain why a number of Colts fans are upset with the decision. As an aside to this, I cannot think of any team sport where the result is so dependant on the performance of one team member, namely the QB, it seems to me that no matter how well the rest of the team play. if your QB is having a nightmare then you are in trouble as aptly shown by The Saints, who have a lot to be thankful for for two monumental errors by the opposing teams QB in the two games I watched.

I had a good look at the replay and I knew the call would have to be changed. The player had possession when he hit the ground so it was a completed catch. The ball was hit out of his possession after he was down but it was the same as when a Colts player spilled it on landing. He was ruled downed by contact. Since it was a completed catch the fact that while falling the player reached out and broke theplane with the ball had to be considered even though he landed outside of the endzone.

The overturning of the call was a perfect example of this poorly officiated game. Earlier in the game the Colts receiver with number 17 catches a pass and is driven out of bounds. The Saints player tries to strip him and when they are out of bounds he punches him in the stomach. Dwight Clark was clearly hit early on a pass that should have been pass interference. The constant holding by Saints tackles against the defensive pass rush. On the play Garcon is called for pass interference, you can see on replay he was clearly held by the defensive player. Yeah, that is his straight arm keeping Garcon away from the ball. Not to mention the Indianapolis player that was clearly kicked in the helmet after the end of a play.

The reason I mention this is the officiating clearly affected the game’s outcome. I cannot remember the last professional football game I have seen where offensive holding or defensive holding was not called at least once in the game. Two unsportsman like calls on both team and a couple of illegal procedures against Indianapolis.

I am not a Colt fan, however, I expect the refs to call the best game possible. They failed to do so.

“If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball after he touches the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete.”

Where is the NFL operative language for “the Ball Breaking the Plane?” because that is the issue, NOT the completion of a pass as it is said above. But, indeed, the pass was complete according to the operative language exhibited above because the receiver maintained possession and the “ball” never touched the ground before the plane was broken.

 The 2-pt conversation play was gutsy. Do you try to make the conversation by running or passing? Is that called a “conversation in passing”?

Nice to see so many people joining this conversion. Always a positive thing when people are converting. My family enjoys a good conversion nearly every day.

I am certainly glad we had this conversion.

When Manning threw the interception, it was over. This 2pt conversion had nothing to do with the momentum of the game. Good overturn by the ref.

The conversion was good . The only thing blown was Peyton walking off the feild without a nod , a handshake or anything, just pouting like the big baby he is.

      I had no preference as to which team won the game . But anyone with any athletic knowledge that viewed the replay of the 2 point conversion would come to the same conclusion. It was a catch .

Who writes this stuff? Perhaps the NFL didn’t quote the rule correctly, but it was indeed a catch. Doesn’t matter that it was bobbled if the player regains control before it touched the ground. It was obvious to anyone with even decent vision he had control of it. It only came loose after it was kicked out of his hand and by then the play was over. Sounds like sour grapes from an unhappy Colts fan.

Disclaimer: Not a Saints or Colts fan, but a non-bias football fan.

The 2 point try was ruled good…Get over it…Life goes on…Even “IF” it was called an incomplete pass…The Saints still won… So here is what I have to say to all the sore-losing colts fans…WHO DAT!!!!!

A son lost, the patriarch father won even if it was a bittersweet feeling. The saints in all their glory filled season has to reckon that Archie Manning is THE qb the saints had wasted by not giving him players that could have made the saints taste the superbowl way earlier than forty plus years of being aints. The saints organization should, I hope, award Archie Manning in a way they deem appropriate.

Gotta feel for Archie. His son losses, yet the team that he played his heart for and all the work his foundation has helped New Orleans has to count for something.

Im a steeler fanatic, but the true saints fan base would know more than I would about this and I truly hope that the saints organization pay him his due respect.

As a steeler fanatic. I was happy that the steeler organization gave due respect to Rod Woodson during the first game of this season when the steelers played the titans.

Every steeler fan knows that Rod played for the ravens and won a superbowl. He ended his career with the raiders but the steelers only had love for Rod and his services rendered.

Would be nice that the saints do the same in their own respect with Archie Manning.

Congrats to the saints on their championship season.

I honestly think Reggie played a part and threw the game for the Saints to win. I believe my points are valid…he’s a Louisiana native and if he had a knee problem, I didn’t see him wearing a knee brace to try and stablize it as he came out of his routes. He ran a route like a rookie when Peyton got intercepted and he acted like a scared bytch azz ROOKIE, AGAIN, when he ran that route across the middle, closed his and dropped a touchdown pass. At least he could have made up for his lack of running a crisp route by catching the damn ball. Maybe somebody from New Orleans threatened to put a price on his relative’s heads that remain in the Louisiana area??

What the hell is up with Colts veteran receivers in big games? These 6ft receivers act scary. Marvin Harrison also played like a scary bytch back in Jan. 2008. He was dropping passes, fumbled his first catch after being out 3 months and look as if he was scared to take a hit. I think the Colts should purse Vincent Jackson from San Diego….he’s tall, fast, strong and can take a fvcking hit in big games!!!!!!!!!!!!