Your daddy should've pulled out.

Well yeah it is.

Long ago, people much smarter than you or I determined that discord and dissent generated a stronger and more passionate following.

Today's professional sports leagues are left with the difficult task of balancing modern technology (that could easily supplant the human element) versus the human element (that clearly generates attention/passion).

common sense on the planet :eek:

**** baseball

Let's play this out....
A hold is challenged...the replay official says there is no hold; however while watching the replay he see's a leg whip that wasn't called. Is the offense now penalized 15-yards for winning a 10-yard challenge?
Where would it end?

I think you just found the can o' worms at the bottom of the rabbit hole. Did you meet that Pandora bitch while you were down there?

I would say yes, the 15 yard penalty would be called... But likely the same coach in the booth that tells the head coach "Throw the Flag, Throw the Flag!" would notice that and tell coach not to throw the flag as they do in the instance a team is screwed on a spot, yet the coach up top realized the receiver stepped out of bounds at the beginning of his route before catching the ball and it went unnoticed. So instead of yelling for the spot replay flag, that coach tells the head coach to go into hurry-up to prevent an incompletion call...

Of course, under 2 mins in the half.... it could get ugly...

So let me get this straight: your premise is that sports owners and league officials decided that getting calls wrong would actually be good because it would band fans together?

That's probably one of the stupider things I've read on the Internet. Which is no small feat.

You understand that the coaches in the booth are only allowed to watch the live network feed. So, it is up to the TV truck about what is seen for replays and challenges.

NO. They didn't decide.

They realized through basic market observation of the consumer base that a certain level of dispute, related to human error, generated a stronger following.

So let me get this straight: you honestly don't believe that a licensing body (the NFL) would allow its clients (the networks) to openly demonstrate the failure of its quality control agents (the officials) if the licensing body didn't KNOW for a fact that human error bullshit (within certain parameters) does in fact increase the overall value of its product.

That would be one of the more stupid things I have read on the net. Which is no mean feat.

Only in the last half of the 4th quarter...then I would agree.

never happen. The NFL will never let go of their "judgment call" excuse.

Rich Eisen asked Rich McKay on NFL Total Access yesterday, citing the BS helmet-to-helmet call against the Jets' Jim Leonard in Denver, a play in which the Jets challenged whether or not the catch was made.

On replay, there clearly was no helmet-to-helmet contact, but McKay's excuse is that it's a slippery slope: don't want to start reviewing judgment calls.

Only reviewable penalty is 12 men on the field.

Iirc, during the first instant replay go around, PI was reviewable. But it really is such a judgment call, it was a mess.

You should be able to challenge obviously bad calls but if you lose the challenge it costs your team 3 points, 10 yards and a kick to the gonads.