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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 955507" data-attributes="member: 13032">Now this is very well stated.  I think a lot of fans have been unhappy with OT rules for years, especially "sudden death".  And you're right about technology.  And like all technology, it works well when it addresses a need.  The review of pass interference is a good example.  It may have addressed a need for fans (although probably not in the end), but the referees certainly didn't want it.  And when you're asking the person who made the call to review it, along with 50 others, it's painful and slows down the game and doesn't add much.  The refs get the majority of their calls right, a minor miracle.But yeah fans are gonna expect the game to keep up.  It's come a long way from watching Bart Starr sneak in a TD in living, grainy black and white many years ago.  No challenge flags back then and who would have used it.  Players and coaches and refs wanted to save as many limbs as they could at that point.  And it WAS a TD thanks to Jerry Kramer and Bart.</blockquote>

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