The National Hockey League already sends all of its disputed plays and replays to a central reviewing location in Toronto. The National Basketball Association will be starting something similar to that setup this year to review plays and calls.
The National Football League, however, will not be instituting any such practices for the coming NFL season. They are thinking about it, and talking about it but it’s simply too complicated an issue for them to pass on quickly.
The NFL is the biggest and most profitable sports league in the world with annual revenues topping ten billion dollars. That’s a lot of money and a lot of power and it’s all divided up between the 32 NFL team owners who pay Roger Goodell and his staff very well indeed to keep it all running smoothly.
And that’s the hold up. Most everyone is in agreement that the centralized reviewing station is the way to go but, not on how to go about it. Having all replays reviewed from a central location will surely speed up the process of reviewing a controversial play and should add a large degree on consistency on the calls.
Rich McKay chaired the meeting of the Competition Committee of the NFL recently and afterwards announced to a waiting press core that it would not be happening in 2014, “We brought it up on Tuesday for 15 minutes. Simply, the membership the last couple of years, we’ve had a lot of discussion around replay, and around its original premise and how it’s being used today. And just the fact that technology has made replay probably grow a little more than we originally thought it would, so we’re just putting our arms around what’s our system going to look like.”
The move will happen at some point in the future. It’s just too efficient to be denied. But the various committees of the NFL Commissioner’s office are going to take their own sweet time about getting it done. After all, this is the NFL and everything has got to work perfectly from the first day.
Back in December, Roger Goodell indicated that he was in favor of the centralized reviewing location because it would mitigate some of the inconsistencies in the calls from game to game. He told reporters, “Consistency is important. By bringing it into the league office on Sundays and having one person actually making that decision, you can make an argument there’s consistency.”
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The National Hockey League already sends all of its disputed plays and replays to a central reviewing location in Toronto. The National Basketball Association will be starting something similar to that setup this year to review plays and calls.
The National Football League, however, will not be instituting any such practices for the coming NFL season. They are thinking about it, and talking about it but it’s simply too complicated an issue for them to pass on quickly.
The NFL is the biggest and most profitable sports league in the world with annual revenues topping ten billion dollars. That’s a lot of money and a lot of power and it’s all divided up between the 32 NFL team owners who pay Roger Goodell and his staff very well indeed to keep it all running smoothly.
And that’s the hold up. Most everyone is in agreement that the centralized reviewing station is the way to go but, not on how to go about it. Having all replays reviewed from a central location will surely speed up the process of reviewing a controversial play and should add a large degree on consistency on the calls.
Rich McKay chaired the meeting of the Competition Committee of the NFL recently and afterwards announced to a waiting press core that it would not be happening in 2014, “We brought it up on Tuesday for 15 minutes. Simply, the membership the last couple of years, we’ve had a lot of discussion around replay, and around its original premise and how it’s being used today. And just the fact that technology has made replay probably grow a little more than we originally thought it would, so we’re just putting our arms around what’s our system going to look like.”
The move will happen at some point in the future. It’s just too efficient to be denied. But the various committees of the NFL Commissioner’s office are going to take their own sweet time about getting it done. After all, this is the NFL and everything has got to work perfectly from the first day.
Back in December, Roger Goodell indicated that he was in favor of the centralized reviewing location because it would mitigate some of the inconsistencies in the calls from game to game. He told reporters, “Consistency is important. By bringing it into the league office on Sundays and having one person actually making that decision, you can make an argument there’s consistency.” |
