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How Instant Replay has Revolutionized Sports (Increases the likelihood…
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Pass interference review has opened a small window both into the wildly different agendas of the NFL fan base and, more worryingly, into the league's inability to respond to any number of crises (Orr)
Yet it is not the mere presence of replay that has muddled the game. Almost any consumer of NFL football would agree that replay is beneficial. It is the connection between replay and the rule book that has manifestly changed the game, and nowhere more pointedly than in the catching of a ball. "Unintended consequences," says Dungy. "I didn't see where this would take us. (Layden)
Look for baseball to rely on technology to call pitches, prompting the inevitable question: Are officials, with their capacity for human error, necessary at all in sports (Wertheim)
VAR's World Cup debut last summer, at the men's tournament, was deemed a success: some top men's pro leagues were already experimenting with VAR (Gregory)
What's more, a new rule dictating how goalkeepers stand before penalty shots was instituted just days before the Cup, and refs have used replays to nitpick its enforcement, going against VAR's stated intent to correct "serious missed incidents" and affecting the outcome of games (Gregory).
VAR allows a team of officials stationed in a review center to look at four types of situations: goals (and the sequences leading to them), penalties, straight red cards and mistaken identity. For subjective decisions, the standard is that only "clear and obvious" mistakes should be changed (Wahl)
In MLS, which has had VAR for two years, the system has been largely embraced (Wahl).
. With more network television cameras capturing every angle with more distinctive clarity, viewers not only get a clearer glimpse of whether the football came loose before the knee hit the turf or whether the runner beat the throw to first, but they also can clearly distinguish the exact profanity from players lips when they disagree with the call (N.A.).
But the incessant video reminders and public harping regarding the bad calls during the baseball playoffs and college football season suggest an officiating system in dire need of an overhaul (N.A.).
We see more clearly now, and man, does that make us angry. We see every shoelace that nicks an out-of-bounds blade of grass, every cloud of dust kicked up by a baseball hit along the foul line, every finger that nips an NBA shooter's elbow. It has turned sports fans into an unforgiving mob that cannot overlook a single missed call, timekeeping error or type-o (Rosenberg).
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