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This past year saw the continued proliferation of replay review in sports. VAR came to the Women’s World Cup, the NBA instituted coach’s challenges and the NFL expanded its replay procedures to make pass interference penalties a reviewable play.
In theory, these changes are supposed to prevent mistakes from being made. In practice, they often just highlight flaws in how sports are officiated. You realize that in sports, nothing is perfect. Such is being a sports fan.
There weren’t more officiating blunders in 2019 than any other year, but there were a few very notable ones.