Why is this good? (US football)

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OGH's Libido

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• Sep 26, 2015

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Saw this on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/american-football/34357251

To me, this seems utterly unremarkable. Doesn't seem to be under much pressure from his opponent who at no point looks like he will get the ball first.

 

gripper stebson

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Strange that.

 

Barham's tash

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• Sep 26, 2015

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Player does what he's supposed to and commentators say what happens in sporting moment money shot shock.
Guess the only mildly remarkable thing is that he was backwards when he caught it?!

 

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OGH's Libido

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Barham's tash said:

mildly remarkable thing is that he was backwards when he caught it?!

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That's all I could come up with too, but that would make it an easier catch, ie, he can see it coming to him which also means he isn't overstretched.

 

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and it was a forward pass

 

Acker79

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It's a bit like when a decent/good goal is proclaimed to be goal of the season just because it was, say, Wayne Rooney or Stephen Gerrard who scored it. That guy made a great catch last season, so has been hyped up to unreasonable levels, and it's because it's him making that catch that they are making a fuss over it. It's a good catch - the distance it has travelled, the handling on the move, but nothing more.

 

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I dunno there was a certain beauty to it... was the commentary more fawning than it would normally be for what seems to the inexpert observer a relatively simple catch?

Nice run, catches ball. They seem to be impressed he arrived at the right spot where the ball was thrown, gaining ground on his (marker?) to be there - but that's why 'plays' are so important to AF right? (as in: he was probably told to run toward the top-right of the pitch then feint and drive to the centre to receive the ball by the play agreed by the particular grunting noise made as the ball was 'snapped' to the quarterback)

 

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OGH's Libido said:

Saw this on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/american-football/34357251

To me, this seems utterly unremarkable. Doesn't seem to be under much pressure from his opponent who at no point looks like he will get the ball first.

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That's nothing check out baseball's 'catch of the day/week/month/year/century'.

I have more than a passing interest in the sport but the screaming adulation for a man with an oversided glove catching a ball is cringe inducing.

 

skipper734

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That sort of catch happens half a dozen times in every decent rugby match. Albeit without helmet, padding and gloves.

 

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American football is the Only sport I watch that I seriously can't see how they are pros.

Looks pretty easy to me