Wisconsin Instant replay ?

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I was at the game, up in the pressbox. The replays they showed on TV are the same replays the "reviewer" has access to. I'm not sure I'd say it worked "flawlessly," but no errors were made. It definately can disrupt the flow of the game, though.

The reviewer signals the R that he thinks a play should be reviewed via a pager of some sort. Then the R talks via headset to the reviewer up in the pressbox. The R never sees any of the replays, so it's up to the reviewer to communicate what happened to the R.

There was one play that was reviewed to determine the location that the runner stepped OOB. Ball was originally spotted at the B 28. After 4 or 5 minutes the R stated the ball will be spotted at the B 41. Though on the replay you can see when the runner was at the 41 he was standing on the numbers, obviously not OOB. Then the R got called back, and they determined it was actually the B 29. So they spent well over 5 minutes to move the ball 1 yard. If they can speed it up and work on the communication, then it might work well.