Beware a scam
Published on January 1, 2004 By Wahkonta Anathema In Sports & Leisure
I try to avoid getting mixed up in trivial issues like which team is best etc. but want to mention a problem developing in the thinking as to the instant replay. I heard a coach state he supported the instant replay then decided it did not work and so would oppose its renewal after this season. He said this after his team lost on a clearly bad call. This is illogical and not in his interests at all as it will give cheaters less accountability if done away with. The solution to the problem is in asking for removal of the review officials as they are not only making clearly bad calls but obviously doing so intentionally. I believe it is intended to make the replay look so bad it will be voted out and accountability done away with. There should be a nnew official review body created to replace these people and ACCOUNTABILITY RE-INFORCED. I once saw an official actually turn a football sideways to stop a team from getting a first down against Dallas back in their heyday, and knew the extent to which public opinion and league pressure was corrupting the game. It is unfair to allow cheating in any sport, and it applies to referees being told to let Jordan get away with fouls, as much as anything that goes on in the game. I was a competitor and hated cheaters because they defile the sanctity of the word Sport and render it shameful for all. To see an athlete train their whole life and be cheated to meet marketing interests and dis-grace the sport is not what any athlete wants. We should insisit on replay and a new body of reviewers. If after drinking for hours ina bar and seeing the replay on a little tv screen at home it is clear to us that it was a bad call, then it should also be clear what is being done when a 'official' replay body openly, blatantly and with malice to sport, makes a deliberate wrong call in front of all of us.
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