Beckham doesn't make the amazing catch without extremely high tech gloves

0/10 Soccer players aren't allowed to use their hands. also no references to bend it like beckham, try harder pls..

He might have made it without gloves. You don't know.

I've been saying for a while that the NFL should make gloves illegal. I think it adds to the shock and awe of great catches when receivers make them without gloves. I also think it could slow down the trend towards a mostly passing, all offense joke of a league.

On a side note, of course he doesn't catch that without gloves. If you watch the replay slow motion you can see the momentum of the ball slowed drastically BEFORE the grip of his hand stops it completely. Without gloves that thing goes right through the three fingers he used to catch it.

dial it up wrote:

I've been saying for a while that the NFL should make gloves illegal. I think it adds to the shock and awe of great catches when receivers make them without gloves. I also think it could slow down the trend towards a mostly passing, all offense joke of a league.

On a side note, of course he doesn't catch that without gloves. If you watch the replay slow motion you can see the momentum of the ball slowed drastically BEFORE the grip of his hand stops it completely. Without gloves that thing goes right through the three fingers he used to catch it.

I'd like to see Beckham do his little pre-game show without the gloves. If I had one question to ask Goddell that would be it; How much technology in equipment are you willing to accept?

truetruetrue wrote:How much technology in equipment are you willing to accept?

Velcro ball and gloves. I'd stop short at a homing implants in the ball/gloves.

what about bringing back the "stickem" or glue or whatever they used to put on their hands to help them catch

Of course they help but everybody is wearing them and not everybody can make that catch.

tycobb wrote:

Of course they help but everybody is wearing them and not everybody can make that catch.

Have you been watching any highlights this year? Every receiver and their mothers are making "that catch". Next week a couple more "that catches" will be made.

I guess I'm the only one who thought it was amazing.

99% of you couldn't even get in the position to catch the ball, high tech gloves or not.

Typical runner or sockpuppet wrote:

I guess I'm the only one who thought it was amazing.

It was good, but not great.

My only question is: why aren't more players making plays like that?

watch some highlights wrote:

tycobb wrote:

Of course they help but everybody is wearing them and not everybody can make that catch.

Have you been watching any highlights this year? Every receiver and their mothers are making "that catch". Next week a couple more "that catches" will be made.

Horse shit. You never have seen and you never will see another catch as amazing as that one.

I think it's perfectly fine to allow these gloves.

Stickum used be legal and the only reason it was outlawed was because it got all over the balls.

Look at Lester Hayes:

http://i1.wp.com/rustyhilger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lester-Hayes-stickum.jpg?resize=295%2C367

In 1980 he had 13 interceptions in the regular season plus 5 more in the playoffs.

Stickum was banned the next year.

U R A Moron wrote:

Horse shit. You never have seen and you never will see another catch as amazing as that one.

Why is it sooooo amazing?

Because it was a leaping one-handed catch while he was being fouled. Oh, and it was a touchdown.

iouerterfd wrote:

U R A Moron wrote:

Horse shit. You never have seen and you never will see another catch as amazing as that one.

Why is it sooooo amazing?

iouerterfd wrote:

U R A Moron wrote:

Horse shit. You never have seen and you never will see another catch as amazing as that one.

Why is it sooooo amazing?

Hellooooooo? wrote:

Because it was a leaping one-handed catch while he was being fouled. Oh, and it was a touchdown.

...and he was bending over backward, fully extended, caught it one-handed with no bobbling or trapping against the body while falling and crashing to the turf.

Other than that, pretty routine really.

When I first saw the catch, the way it was hyped, I seriously thought the guy had done some sort of flip in the air while catching the ball. I mean, I guess it was pretty good. The guy did jump up in the air, he did catch it one-handed while bending his back with his arm extended and then he fell on the ground. So, in that sense, it was pretty cool, I guess. I couldn't do it.

Fully extended? For someone to be fully extended (the way you think he was fully extended) I would expect to see every part of their body parallel to the ground which didn't happen...at all.

I guess if he'd just ran a little faster he could've skipped the whole "greatest catch ever" thing altogether.

iouerterfd wrote:

When I first saw the catch, the way it was hyped, I seriously thought the guy had done some sort of flip in the air while catching the ball. I mean, I guess it was pretty good. The guy did jump up in the air, he did catch it one-handed while bending his back with his arm extended and then he fell on the ground. So, in that sense, it was pretty cool, I guess. I couldn't do it.

Fully extended? For someone to be fully extended (the way you think he was fully extended) I would expect to see every part of their body parallel to the ground which didn't happen...at all.

I guess if he'd just ran a little faster he could've skipped the whole "greatest catch ever" thing altogether.

OK, so you have never played football in your life. Got it.

No, I've played football. I mean I did say I couldn't make a catch like that.

Yeah, I get it - he jumped up in the air and arched his back and caught a ball one handed. Great catch! I guess the way it was hyped I was looking for something really awesome. I think a better catch would be the guy is running and then jumps and catches it one-handed and back-flips and lands on his feet in the end zone. Don't you think that'd be a more awesome catch?