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Referee: Dez Bryant Catch Incomplete Once Ball Hit Ground
NFL.com. "Referee: Dez Bryant Catch Incomplete Once Ball Hit Ground." January 11, 2015, https://www.nfl.com/news/referee-dez-bryant-catch-incomplete-once-ball-hit-ground-0ap3000000456973.
Why this matters here
NFL.com reports the January 2015 NFC Divisional review in which Dez Bryant's on-field catch was overturned under the then-applicable going-to-the-ground standard once the ball came loose on contact with the ground. The Game We Think We Saw uses that widely seen play to show that replay still answers a rule's categories applied to a body in motion—the whistle expresses what the rules allow sight to mean, not raw visibility alone.
