If this was NFL football, would this be a legal play? [.gif attached]

It has been pretty well established here that the beagle never really did make contact with the ball. The other dog, however, did look at the ball, as though trying to go for it, before crashing into the beagle. The general rule is that anyone is allowed to catch a pass, if a tackler is looking for the ball rather than just trying to bollix the receiver, DPI usually does not get called. There was a game I saw recently where a receiver saw an interception about to happen and committed flagrant interference on the defender to prevent it – a 10-yd penalty is usually preferable to loss of possession and always better than coughing up a pick-6.

I just downloaded it so I can look at it frame-by-frame. I had thought at first that the beagle had made contact in frame 16, though looking at it more slowly, I now have doubts about that. Regardless, though, the trajectory of the ball has apparently been changed by frame 26 or 27, and has definitely changed as of frame 28, while the first dog-to-dog contact is somewhere been frame 29 and 31.

And I want that big brown dog (or dawg) playing for Cleveland.

“After rechewing the play, the retriever was attempting to inter-pet the ball from the dogfensive player, it is an incomplete pass, second hound”