My wife decided to really learn football this year. She’s a Notre Dame alum so she watches the Irish and Bills but just knew TDs were good.
She now knows the difference between a free safety and a strong safety; can call intentional grounding a mile away, and knows was a 12 formation is.
We were watching an NFC game as those are the ones I can pause and show her things she has questions on. During one of them she said “wait; how is that not a catch?” I told her I’ve been watching football closely for 43 years (yes, I started watching in the delivery room), and that is a question I simply can’t answer.
So, while the fumble through the EZ is a bad rule, the definition of a catch is far far worse.