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You can make a case that replay has become too much when it comes to sports these days. Take baseball for example. The ol’ neighborhood play at second base on a double play turn is no longer a thing. Now whoever is receiving the ball on the turn must make actual contact with the bag. A slide into a bag where you come off for 0.0000001 seconds might end an inning and swing a game. Some things video replay definitely intrudes on, but the clip below does not apply to that sentiment. 

I’ve seen 50 replays and still don’t know with certainty if that field goal was good or not. 

For so long I’ve wondered how the fuck you’re gonna tell me two refs standing below the goal posts there have any idea if a field goal went in or not when it’s that close up top? There’s no shot. That’s the best we can do? Two guys just look straight up, then glance at each other, and come to some agreement in a split second’s time to make the call? I was flabbergasted when the rules official came on the TV to tell us…

“Its hard to tell, thats why it’s not reviewable”

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? If something is admittedly hard to tell, why not have is be reviewable? We’re just okay with these two refs immediate decision and that’s that? I can watch a tennis match and see if a ball caught like the line by 0.00000000001 of an inch. In soccer we can tell if the ball crossed the line for a goal by the tiniest of margins. Hell, in the NFL now we’re using the very same technology for first downs, discarding the chain gain for backup use. Multi billion dollar league and up until last year this is how first downs were actually decided. I’ve never trusted this group once. 

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Now that we’ve managed to solve that crisis, we must turn to field goals. I don’t care if you’re the biggest ref fan in the world, you cannot convince me they’re calling those 50/50 kicks with 100% accuracy simply by looking straight up as the ball passes on by. There are two easy ways to fix this problem.

1) Make the goal posts significantly higher. Right now we’re at 35 feet? Double that shit. Hell, make them a clean 100 feet while you’re at it. Easy fix. 

2) If you’re hesitant to go with option one for optics, and think 100 foot goal posts are silly, then lean on this thing called technology and let it be there to assist you in the event you get a kick like Tyler Loop’s last night. Instead of everyone in the building and at home wondering how you can call that good with no review, let technology answer your question in less than a second. Just have lasers shooting up into the sky and if the plane gets broken then it’s good. This is not rocket science. 

It really is hilarious that this league is worth so much damn money and by far the most popular thing in our country, yet we purposely tie our hands behind our backs when it comes to making sure we get things right with it. 

Bonus option: Put another cross bar on top of the goal posts and create a box to kick it in. Now we’re changing the game. 

But actually it’s insane there’s no replay with field goals when you have a kick like last night be so iffy. Imagine that was to win it? Picture it being the Super Bowl? And we’re just content with two refs starting straight up into the sky to guess what they think the call is. The NFL man, nothing like it.Â