re: I'm hoping a Super Bowl will one day be decided by a controversial

It's actually one of the most logical penalty results out there. Sucks when it happens to you, but it makes sense to me. On the other side, I believe offensive holding makes less sense.

Here is why: For PI you are basically saying the receiver was impeded for making the catch. Thus, if he wouldn't have been interfered he would have hypothetically caught the ball so they put the ball at the spot.

Offensive holding you penalize 10 yards from the previous spot. This is liberal as shite but I believe it should be a spot of the hold(of course unless it would advance the ball) and loss of down. When a team holds you are basically saying the running back or whoever gained yards that wouldn't have been gained otherwise. Thus, put him at the spot with a loss of down which is the theoretical result that would have happened had there been no hold.