It was Calvin Johnson’s would-be touchdown that started the debate about what is and isn’t a catch eight years ago, and now that the NFL has rewritten a rule that he helped define, Johnson ...

The NFL has encountered controversy over its catch rule and the implications of instant replay since the early 1980s. It wasn't until Calvin Johnson's game-winning touchdown was overturned in 2010 ...

After Week 1 in the NFL, Alex Barron and Calvin Johnson might be contenders for the worst play of the season. Johnson made what appeared to be the game-winning touchdown catch, only to leave the ...

CHICAGO -- Calvin Johnson was celebrating what he thought was the go-ahead touchdown catch, a leaping grab in the end zone that would give the Detroit Lions their first road win in three years.

CHICAGO -- Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson thought he made the game-winning touchdown catch and started to celebrate -- a little too early, as it turns out. Whether he didn't know the NFL's ...

next week, none of which attempt to clarify the Calvin Johnson Rule of what is and isn't a catch. "We’ve spent an exorbitant amount of time during the off-season (discussing it)," NFL executive ...

The play that started the "process of the catch" debate was a would-be touchdown pass to Calvin Johnson that was ruled incomplete because the Lions wide receiver lost the ball when he hit the ground.

Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson seemed to bend the rules of physics again on Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers. On his first-half touchdown catch, Johnson (6-5, 237 lbs.) ...

Johnson's Catch: Good or Ball Call ... After the Louis Murphy debacle last year and now the Calvin Johnson robbery, it's evident it's time for the NFL to take a look at changing the rule.

“I mean, definitely,” receiver Calvin Johnson said Wednesday ... by Johnson was wiped off the board because he was going to the ground when making the catch, which made the catch invalid because he ...

Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson has caught a pass in every game of his career, but he almost didn't against the St. Louis Rams in Week 14. The Rams held Johnson without a catch for most ...

With just 25 seconds remaining in the game against the Chicago Bears, backup Lions quarterback Shaun Hill connected with big wide receiver Calvin Johnson ... in the act of catching a pass (with ...