Thursday, January 17, 2008

NCAA and NFL Football Replays

Anyone else sick of the "Replay"- the Red Challenge Flag- the extra 30-45 minutes per game, or the complacency of referees because of the "Replay".

I am!!!!!!

I have never liked replay- I'm OK with the imperfections in a game officiated my human beings. You see you can never eliminate the human factor in these games. There will still be biased referees. There will be certain calls or situations that can't be challenged. There will be plays that are just too close to call or overturn. There will be policies like the Cleveland field goals of the back brace which elude us.

In my opinion all that's happened with the addition of replay is the aforementioned problems.

The worst of which the referees complacency. Referees no miss calls that they are standing on top of- you ask why? Because the replay bails them out. They no longer have to be focus for 4 quarters. They can check out mentally and the replay will bail them out. Everyone knows it's true- just watch the games next year. You'll see obvious calls that referees can't pull the trigor on, because the know there's a replay.

Now baseball will add it because of all those home runs. Maybe we can add it to Saturday kids rec leagues.

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