Before computers, I had a baseball card game (like an APBA knockoff) where you lay out all the defensive positions on this gigantic grid, and the batter would hit the ball to a specific grid coordinate, and then the defensive players would run to that coordinate, etc. Anyway, it took 3 hours to play one game of baseball, but the best part of the game was at any point you could "argue with the umpire" over a call...you would roll the dice, and no matter what happened or what the call was in regards to, there was a chance that with a good dice roll you could have the ump change the call. I think if you combine the time consumption of this baseball card game along with the dice rolling umpire overturn, you get an accurate reflection of today's NFL.Reaser wrote:Someone else recently posted the replay system is a "coin flip", which I think is a good way to put it. It can be clear as day and it's still 50/50 with NFL rules, officials and with the people in charge of the replay system.
In regards to the specific Cotchery play, when I saw it happen I thought "wow, this is the worst possible play for the NFL". I thought it was a catch, but when the initial ruling is incomplete and there is a point where the ball hits the ground and moves, I expected the refs to go with the original incomplete ruling. I think if Cotchery catches the ball cleanly, this is a non-issue. I also think that this was the correct usage of instant replay..."indisputable video evidence" and so forth.
