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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 764009" data-attributes="member: 10441">A blown call never determines a season, or they'd only have one play per year.  Quit being so melodramatic.  We could go they the history of the NFL and retroactively apply all sorts of rules and change all sorts of things.  Reply has NOT gotten rid of controversy and has added a level of microanalysis that is turning some people away.  Turns catches into incompletions, turns incompletions into fumbles and Touchdowns into turnovers and depending on the era and the rules they might be called differently.  And to be fair, how many plays call as stands because there isn't enough to over turn it?  And they were made by the official with replay in mind, rather than just calling it like they see it.  There are plays like that every week that just go on and they change games too because officials are relying on replay to get it right, rather than calling what they see.  At some point someone makes a call and we move on.  Replay will never be perfect and then stuff they add to it, the closer we get to fans reaching the point they just turn it off.  The rules will never be applied equally enough or interpreted the same from game to game, especially with more layers of variables before someone finally makes a decision and we move on.</blockquote>

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