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Old Wed Dec 10, 2008, 01:09pm
Ed Hickland Ed Hickland is offline
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Originally Posted by HossHumard View Post
Lord no!

Unless you're one of the major US networks with 20 HD cameras and twice as many PA's, 99.9% of the time the BEST view of any play is from the official on the field.

If I had a (US) dollar for every time I've said, "Coach, you would not believe how different a play can look from 3 yards away where I'm standing as opposed to the 35 yards away where you're standing"....I could retire and buy that swamp land in FLA I've been dreaming of.

Players execute correctly 50% of the time, coaches less, fans.....don't get me started.

Officials get it right 95%+...why are we even talking about such a scenario?
Simple. We are starting to see game videos show up on mainly on newspaper sites and YouTube in super slow motion "proving" the officials were wrong and hoping to convince even at the cost of going to court the decision should be overturned.

Think this discussion proves it impractical, of course, that will not stop the proponents who most likely have never officiated a football game.
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