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Friday Flakes: Abolish Replay Review in Sports

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 review 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 replay review make is that they “just want to get the calls right.