36. "lol, cmon, people are fine with it cause it's the Pats" In response to In response to 35
As I stated elsewhere, the Pats lost cause of Belichick and blahblahblah... just getting that out of the way...
With that said, if this were the other way around and the Pats benefited from a last-minute rule change people would lose their minds and they'd be right to do so. It wouldn't matter the context or the fact that the rule should be changed/was going to be changed later.
RE: "from a pure rules perspective" again, this isn't the first shitty rule that's existed yet it's the first time in 52 years they changed a rule for the Super Bowl. I hated the catch rule myself and this move still makes no sense.