Posted on 04/10/2025 7:02:50 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
The NFL has fired three officials.
Second-year umpire James Carter, third-year line judge Robin DeLorenzo and first-year down judge Robert Richeson were the officials sent back to the college ranks. DeLorenzo didn’t qualify for a postseason game in HER two seasons; and Richeson was not playoff eligible as a rookie.
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“...technology for next season...”
You bring a few situations to the problems in using human officials for anything. In my forty years of officiating different sports to include football, I have found the same thing the priest said in Rudy, “Son, in thirty-five years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I’m not him.”
“Officiating sports falls in line. And as long as it effects the bottom line, it is an issue to have something thrown at it.
A perfect example is the rule change recently to rule 11 article one that says A touchdown is scored when:
1. The ball is on, above, or behind the plane (extended) and is possession of a runner who has advanced from the field of play into the end zone.
What that means is that a runner can cross the goal line and even if the ball didn’t, it’s considered a touchdown by association. The ball doesn’t have to break the plane if the line of end zone goes into an out of play area (extended).
Another is taunting. Rule 12, Section 3, Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Article 1: Prohibited Acts:
There shall be no unsportsmanlike conduct. This applies to any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship. Such acts specifically include, among others:
(c) Using baiting or taunting acts or words that engender ill will between teams
I can promise you that intimidation is a major part of the game and taunting is the main tool in it all the way down to youth teams. So it could be called on any play, but isn’t because if they take the thug out of the game it becomes lawn tennis and the frothing fans won’t pay for that.
AI technology is not going to be able to cover situations like that without wiring the players and/or destroying the game that has been created for a certain fan base.
It seems like every year some new idea to “improve” the game becomes a deteriment to it and takes one of two years to determine its failure. If you heard right, it will be a laugh a minute when AI can’t determine where the ball is when a player got knocked backward and tried to go forward when the forward position of the ball when the play is blown dead is beyond where it ended up. And if this is the only function of the AI, the fans will have to pay for it’s installation. That makes it fun for the entie family.
wy69
“...technology for next season...”
You bring a few situations to the problems in using human officials for anything. In my forty years of officiating different sports to include football, I have found the same thing the priest said in Rudy, “Son, in thirty-five years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I’m not him.”
“Officiating sports falls in line. And as long as it effects the bottom line, it is an issue to have something thrown at it.
A perfect example is the rule change recently to rule 11 article one that says A touchdown is scored when:
1. The ball is on, above, or behind the plane (extended) and is possession of a runner who has advanced from the field of play into the end zone.
What that means is that a runner can cross the goal line and even if the ball didn’t, it’s considered a touchdown by association. The ball doesn’t have to break the plane if the line of end zone goes into an out of play area (extended).
Another is taunting. Rule 12, Section 3, Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Article 1: Prohibited Acts:
There shall be no unsportsmanlike conduct. This applies to any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship. Such acts specifically include, among others:
(c) Using baiting or taunting acts or words that engender ill will between teams
I can promise you that intimidation is a major part of the game and taunting is the main tool in it all the way down to youth teams. So it could be called on any play, but isn’t because if they take the thug out of the game it becomes lawn tennis and the frothing fans won’t pay for that.
AI technology is not going to be able to cover situations like that without wiring the players and/or destroying the game that has been created for a certain fan base.
It seems like every year some new idea to “improve” the game becomes a deteriment to it and takes one of two years to determine its failure. If you heard right, it will be a laugh a minute when AI can’t determine where the ball is when a player got knocked backward and tried to go forward when the forward position of the ball when the play is blown dead is beyond where it ended up. And if this is the only function of the AI, the fans will have to pay for it’s installation. That makes it fun for the entie family.
wy69
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