Replay Now Permanent in NFL

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PHOENIX (AP) - Replay is here to stay in the NFL. Or at least as permanently as any rule can be in pro football.

League owners voted 30-2 on Tuesday to make the video replay system to aid officiating a permanent tool. Every stadium will be equipped with high-definition equipment and will be recabled before the upcoming season.
"It's a long time coming," said Atlanta Falcons general manager Rich McKay, co-chairman of the competition committee that recommended the change. "It made sense to us this year to do it. Instant replay is an accepted part of the game. It's what we are. There was not really much discussion about it."
Cincinnati and Arizona voted against the proposal, as they nearly always do on replay issues.
The owners also voted unanimously to allow a second interviewing window for assistant coaches on Super Bowl teams who are in the running for other head coaching jobs. Previously, only during the week after the season ended could an interview be conducted.
The coach's current team would have to grant permission for the second interview, which would take place during the bye week after the conference title games.
"We wanted to make sure that coaches on Super Bowl teams didn't feel it was a disadvantage," McKay said.
One proposal was defeated. Defenses will not be allowed to have a coach-to-player communications device similar to what quarterbacks use. McKay said owners and coaches were concerned about who would be allowed to wear the device with defenses using multiple formations, and the possibility that more than one player could wind up on the field with such a device. San Francisco withdrew its proposal to make defensive pass interference either a 15-yard penalty or a spot foul, depending on the severity of the infraction.

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[Catch-22]

This is good news. While it can be a hassle sometimes, it really adds another dramatic element to the game, and most of the time the correct calls are made after going under the hood.

 

[ZeroClub]

"It's a long time coming," said Atlanta Falcons general manager Rich McKay

In more ways than one.

Accuracy is good, but it plays h#ll with the flow of the game.

 

[Doomsday101]

In more ways than one.

Accuracy is good, but it plays h#ll with the flow of the game.

I agree and think they need to speed things up. Replay is supposed to be to correct obvious mistakes and that should not take as long as it currently does if it is that obvious. If there is a doubt then replay rules say you go with the call on the field. I do think replay can be a good thing but it does play hell with the flow of the game

 

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[SIZE=+2]Replay now permanent in NFL

[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]04:22 PM CDT on Tuesday, March 27, 2007

[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Associated Press[/SIZE] PHOENIX – Replay is here to stay in the NFL.


Or at least as permanently as any rule can be in pro football.


League owners voted 30-2 on Tuesday to make the video replay system a permanent officiating tool. All but three stadiums will be equipped with high-definition equipment and will be recabled before the upcoming season, at a cost of as much as $300,000 per club. The stadiums being replaced – Texas Stadium, thr RCA Dome in Indianapolis and Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. – will not get the updates.


"It's a long time coming," said Atlanta Falcons general manager Rich McKay, co-chairman of the competition committee that recommended the change. "It made sense to us this year to do it. Instant replay is an accepted part of the game. It's what we are. There was not really much discussion about it."


Cincinnati and Arizona voted against the proposal, as they nearly always do on replay issues.


The owners also voted unanimously to allow a second interviewing window for assistant coaches on Super Bowl teams who are in the running for other head coaching jobs. Previously, only during the week after the season ended could an interview be conducted.


The coach's current team would have to grant permission for the second interview, which would take place during the bye week after the conference title games.


"We wanted to make sure that coaches on Super Bowl teams didn't feel it was a disadvantage," McKay said.


One proposal was defeated. Defenses will not be allowed to have a coach-to-player communications device similar to what quarterbacks use. McKay said owners and coaches were concerned about who would be allowed to wear the device with defenses using multiple formations, and the possibility that more than one player could wind up on the field with such a device.


"Conceivably, we'll bring it up again," McKay said. "We haven't see its last discussion."


San Francisco withdrew its proposal to make defensive pass interference either a 15-yard penalty or a spot foul, depending on the severity of the infraction.


McKay was not optimistic that the recommendation to move the kickoff for overtime from the 30-yard line to the 35 would pass Wednesday. He said some people were concerned about the effect on the return game, and that a group of owners would favor a mandatory two-possession overtime in which each team gets the ball once.


That has not been proposed, however. Nor has any system similar to the college overtimes, or a continuation of the game from where it ended after four quarters.


"I'm bothered by the stats with respect to overtime," McKay said, citing a significant spike since 1997 in how many teams won overtime games after also winning the coin toss. That percentage went from 55.9 from 1994-97 to 64.6 for the next four seasons. And after it dropped to 60 percent for 2002-05, it went up to 63.6 last season.


"We're a league that tries to balance the field and clearly the field is not balanced with respect to overtime with the kickoff."


The owners also will vote on Tampa Bay's proposal to use instant replay for all penalties except holding; increasing the number of players suited up for games from 45 to 47; and instituting 5-yard penalties for players who spike the ball on the field of play. Spikes in the end zone after scores would be allowed.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I like replay. Glad it's now a permanent part of the game.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I would have been shocked if this was ever voted down if it hadn't become permanent.

 

[Hostile]

I personally hate replay. It doesn't work near well enough.

 

[AbeBeta]

I like replay in theory -- now the league's focus needs to be improving the system

 

[DallasEast]

Why is it that I can, in the comfort of my living room, see one or two replay angles and make a decision within a few seconds? Yet, the ref will take minutes in coming to the exact same conclusion?

And why is it that they are sometimes wrong, but I'm always right?

 

[Hostile]

Why is it that I can, in the comfort of my living room, see one or two replay angles and make a decision within a few seconds? Yet, the ref will take minutes in coming to the exact same conclusion?

And why is it that they are sometimes wrong, but I'm always right?

You're not 70 and blind as a bat or suffering from alzheimers?

Just a theory.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I personally hate replay. It doesn't work near well enough.

The thing that really grates on me is when the NFL VP comes on NFLN Total Access every Wednesday during the season. Rich Eisen will always replay the three most controversial plays and asks for a explaination of the call. Two things always happen - the call is defended and "it's a judgement call and we support the call that was made" is said. Boy just once I would love to hear how the ref screwed the pooch on some call. The slant he puts on his explainations just want to make you pull out your teeth. Clearly the way you and I see the replay system work is different that those who are running it. When the game is stopped for 5 minutes for a replay that is obviously wrong or right something is wrong.