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Friday Flakes: Abolish Instant Replay in Sports

Corn Nation | January 3, 2020

Related Topics: Instant replay, Replay, Ohio State University, Patrick Beverley, Hail Varsity, Los Angeles Clippers, Steve Spurrier, Super Bowl, John Peterson

Issues with replay in sports has been simmering in my brain for probably a year. Then the debacle during the Ohio State - Clemson game happened.

The play which helped me realize that replay in sports should be abolished was the fumble returned for a touchdown by Ohio State which was subsequently reversed on replay.

Here’s what we got.
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Ruled a catch then fumble.
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Ohio State recovered it, returned for TD.
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Refs overturned it. Called it incomplete.
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Agree, disagree? pic.twitter.com/97GDdQ20vs— Mr.CollegeFootball (@Noah_Leadore) December 29, 2019

The argument that proponents of instant replay make is that they just “want to get the calls right.









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