Excellent research! That is really interesting how the NFL evolved it's rule in that manner. I had always just assumed they created the two feet rule due to making it more difficult because after all they are the best of the best in the NFL
In his 1970s hit R&B tune "Wide Receiver", singer/musician Michael Henderson called my attention to this in a spoken passage: "I put both my feet down/and still I didn't get the point/the referee/must have been smoking a joint..."
Excellent research! That is really interesting how the NFL evolved it's rule in that manner. I had always just assumed they created the two feet rule due to making it more difficult because after all they are the best of the best in the NFL
They considered switching to the one foot approach in 1973 and chose not to thinking it would be a harder call for the officials
In his 1970s hit R&B tune "Wide Receiver", singer/musician Michael Henderson called my attention to this in a spoken passage: "I put both my feet down/and still I didn't get the point/the referee/must have been smoking a joint..."