The Effect of the Instant Replay on NFL Officials The NFL can vote to keep instant replay out of the game every year, but the owners will never get rid of it. That's because like it or not, the NFL has instant replay. It comes courtesy of television and Jumbotron. And it's leaving the leagues officials vulnerable to widespread and immediate second-guessing from fans, coaches and players a net inside every stadium. The officials, in a matter speaking, are left working without. Seemingly on the verge of returning instant replay to the game earlier in the week, the owners at their annual meetings rejected the plan on Wednesday by three votes. The problem: Each time a coach challenged a call and requested a replay, it costs the team a timeout- no matter if the call is reversed. "We have on of the best games in the world," said Raiders owner Al Davis, "We have 3 timeouts in the first half, 3 in the second, and that's the way it has been forever. I don't want instant replay to compromise that". Instant replay failed the first time for four main reasons: · The decision was not made by the officials on the field. · It took too long for the plays to be reviewed and created too much dead air time that lengthened the game. · Because of the dead airtime it lead to the announcers having to much free time and running the whole procedure into the ground. Many times I heard the announcers berating the replay official in the booth and how he was trying to see a 9" inch monitor. They even used telestraitors to point things out. They even started playing Jeopardy music and basically made a farce out of the whole process. · Too many plays were reviewed Obviously, they are not going to prohibit the showing of replays inside the sta... ... middle of paper ... ..."Pro" football should be no different. There is a full six months for officials to work in football, starting with training camps in July and going to the end of December-and that's not counting those chosen for the playoffs. In the spring, they could attend minicamps held by teams. In the season, they could even work practices or spend the week reviewing film and increasing their grip on the rules. Heck, let them be involved in league charity work or run an off-season school for young officials who want to be in the NFL. There really is plenty for them to do. Admittedly, hiring-full time officials won't mean every call is correct. Humans make errors. But a commitment to officiating will be a commitment to credibility. The players and coaches are professionals. Why aren't the officials? Perhaps if they were the question of instant replay would go away?
The longer that football was on television, the more intense the publicity for the NFL became. The Monday Night Football Logo showed to helmets hitting together forcefully, the NFL marketed the violence and captured the tension between violence and the art of football.
Tony Verna is credited with inducting instant replay into the NFL back in 1986 (Lopez 58). Instant replay was implemented to ensure the correct calls are made in crucial games. The Lions-Steelers game on Thanksgiving Day is a good example of what should not happen when instant replay is in use. After this bizarre incident, the NFL then changed its rule of 22 years that team captains call the flip in the air. Now captains call it before the flip. In addition, three officials will oversee the ceremony instead of one. According to Erik Brady: "Now we know the answer to a new spin on an old joke: How many NFL officials does it take to flip a coin" (2A)?
Are you a fan of the National Football League? Have you ever been frustrated about the overtime rules? The NFL overtime rules are a flawed system that clearly gives the advantage to a certain team. After regulation time expires, the team with the most points wins. But, if two teams are tied, the game will go into overtime, an extra quarter to decide the winner. If a team scores a touchdown in overtime, they automatically win the game in sudden death. But, if a team kicks a field goal on their first possession, the other team has one possession to win the game with a touchdown or tie the game with a field goal. If both teams kick a field goal, or if neither teams score on their first possession, the next team to score any points will win the game. If both teams are tied at the end of overtime, during a regular season game, the game will end in a tie. During the playoffs, there would be a second overtime and the game wouldn’t be determined until a team won. This is a flawed system that needs to be changed for the better enjoyment of NFL fans, and to make it fairer for coaches and play...
America’s newfound favorite pastime, football, came from a bizarre chain of events. Football started when a soccer player got fed up with just kicking the ball, so he picked up the ball and ran to the goal. His actions of picking up the ball and running with it fathered a new European sport, rugby, which was soon brought over to American shores, and was altered slightly, the shape of the ball and a few other small rules. The sport became organized into a league and produced the NFL(National Football League). The NFL had a slow beginning, but has picked up popularity, currently having a 9 billion dollar yearly revenue. Playing football comes with great costs, including physical and mental health deterioration, plus the amount of time spent prepping before game day. Which can pose several questions, “Why suffer for a game, Is it worth the money? Is it worth the fame? How great is the cost?” I believe that football, should have stricter regulations for the treatment of injuries, along with informing players of just how devastating a concussion can be, along with the other major injuries that commonly occur while playing football.
They should have followed the NFL rules and made sure the correct air pressure was in the balls. Maybe one of the coaching staff or one of the players told them to do that, but they should have known the difference between right and wrong and realized that there may be consequences. The
Playing football comes with several risks factors that players’ acknowledge prior to playing the game starting a young age. Regardless, these players still chose to play the game, which they end up loving and cherishing despite all the risks accompanied with it. Football is one of the toughest sports in the world; it takes a certain amount of strength, speed, and aggressiveness to play 48 minutes of hard-nosed football. However, the National Football League (NFL) is in the midst of a controversial issue. Is the NFL getting soft? This has been a debatable issue for several years. While some believe that implementing all these rules in the NFL is progressively turning the game soft, others say that the NFL is not getting soft; it is just trying to make the game safer for its players.
Looking at the severity of injuries in the NFL in this day and age, and then looking at what the NFL does to protect players, the NFL is a business. Everything is politics. It has turned into who has the best stadium rather than who has the best players. The NFL is all about who has the best fans, not who has the best coach. The better fans you have, the more money you make, but the better coach you get, the more money you have to pay him. Growing up as a fan of the NFL, it saddens me to see the decline of the sport I love so much, but it is nearly inevitable. Soon enough, everyone in the NFL will be injured, and football will be over. The way things are going, players are dropping faster than we are gaining them. We only draft new players into the league once a...
Well first why are people supporting the gambling of the NFL? Gambling could lead to addiction and fans could get carried away and lose a lot of money. If media covers all the teams and players then gambling occurs with who wins games and the coin toss and all the other main things in a NFL game. Also all the youth players have dreams of getting into the NFL, the media is crushing all those dreams by letting out information about brain injuries and concussions. This crazy action is causing parents to become much more involved with news of the NFL and has blocked their child of playing the game. The media needs to stop with the annoying finger pointing, the annoying blaming, and the annoying small issues that no one cares
The rules that the NFL is changing is rules that deal with the head like targeting, and leading with the head. The rule change with a huge uproar as the kick off, moving the ball from the twenty to the thirty yard line.
...avel expenses. Officials working in the championship games at the top levels can earn up to $1000 a game. Sometimes pro officials make the best amount of money because of the bigger crowds. For major league baseball umpires a season they make 100,000 to 300,000. Most pro officials require a experience with proven ability to make it to this level. The annual earnings for all sports officials is ranged between 16,000 and 50,000 with the median of 23,000 a year. Working conditions for officials are inside if bad weather or outdoor if it is good sports weather. It is important for the officials to have respect for all team players that are playing at the time. Sports officials should try to call the games down the middle fair for both different teams. They also have striped shirt with the colors of black and white with black pants and black shoes to match his outfit.
First the rule in the NFL was that the play would be an automatic penalty, would result in player fine, and an additional fifteen yards would be added from where the foul was committed. The play is reviewable; however, if the call on the field does not stand the player is not fined, but it is still a fifteen yard penalty. A lot of coaches and other National Football League associates disagreed with that section of the rule and after debates and discussions the rule was changed. As of the season, if the play is reviewed and there is not an actual penalty then
It's nothing new for the National Football League's players to be abusing anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Drug abuse in the league has recently focused around recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. The newest drug being abused is painkillers. The commissioner and his personal need to change their policies. Will they wait until many more players start to die before they tighten up their drug policies? The National Football League (NFL) can stop most of these drug problems by having more random drug tests given, enforcing stricter punishments when players are caught using drugs, and requiring every team to educate its players annually on the effects and consequences of all drugs.
The NFL is looking into Advanced Technology to assist in creating a safer game. To encourage more development of new technology and products to address concerns with player safety the NFL has created a system that incentivizes developers. We have created a “Engineering Roadmap” by bringing together people from academia, industry, government, and the NFLPA to determine the most pressing needs of our players. Helmets, Artificial Turf and the Ahead 3000 are the top developments in progress.
After thoroughly evaluating the positives and negatives impacting the sport entity, The NFL is really in a tough position by far. More and more players continually are being diagnosed and the worst part about it is, to fix the issue of retired players being exposed to this disease the league must fix its current game. Roger Goodell is in a tough position because like Bernard stated if you are going to practice the “safety rule” in today’s day and age, defensive players are going to be more concerned about getting fined then making the plays for its respective team. The game will lose integrity. The NFL must find a way were it can coup with everything because yes older players are suffering, current players are displeased, but what’s going to happen when parents turn away from football? The NFL may see it’s last snap.
NFL players need an education in case of injuries or if they can’t play for any reason. Players can have a degree in any type of subject. If a player wants to play in the NFL, he has to attend a college or a university that has a good football program. Some players come from high school but most players come from a four year college (Field 11). If you have a son that is going to be in the NFL who wants to play linemen, he has to be about 6’8” tall and weigh around 350 lbs. Players have to know the game. They can’t hope to be a NFL player if they don’t understand how to play the game (Green 174).