re: It's time to admit that instant replay is a failed experiment

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Now they are told, "If you think you see something call it, and if it's a bad call we'll just let replay fix it." The problem is that we are dealing with two different standards here: the initial call, for which the standard is, "Call it if you think you see it," and the replay standard, which is, "Irrefutable video evidence must exist to overturn the call on the field." So we get refs making borderline or bad calls with the idea that replay will fix them, but then we look at the replay and we can't see what's going on because someone was in the way or the camera angle wasn't right or the replay ref decides the video evidence may be 99.9% clear that the call was bad but that still doesn't meet the "irrefutable" standard, and the bad call is allowed to stand.

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I agree with this 100%. It seems to happen a ton with pass/fumble calls.

That said, replay has gotten rid of some of the horrible calls that we used to see in the 80s and 90s.

The proliferation of sports gambling will only make replay more invasive on the games. Financial markets are build on trust, so sports books don’t want any appearance of a rigged outcome.