What the Hell Are They Thinking? by Daniel Ravner

Author:Daniel Ravner [Ravner, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perspective Media
Published: 2021-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Argument against Replays

Imperfections make perfection

Sports are one of those rare things in life where perfection isn’t necessary. The imperfections in sports is part of what makes watching them so entertaining; it’s what allows teams to score against others; it’s what makes it possible for the underdog to win137; it’s what amazes us over and over again. Mistakes are part of a game’s lore. It’s unreasonable to ask for error-free sports. Referees138, like players, are humans who make mistakes, and that’s part of what makes sports so entertaining and, sometimes, even relatable.

They ruin sports’ historical moments

No matter the sport, games often get condensed into one particular moment. While the final score of any sport is determined as a result of an entire game, there is usually one defining moment during a particular game. SMoreover, sometimes that defining moment is also the final play, which also determines the game’s winner of the game. Think about the greatest sports’ moments you’ve seen or personally experienced. Now, imagine that those moments were subjected to replays during the game itself, with everything coming to a pause so that the judges can check the monitors. Puff, that initial magic is gone. Those are the most special moments in sports139, and using replays means ruining them for fans.

They won’t eliminate controversies but will create new ones

Using more replays won’t eliminate140 controversies from sports, rather they will simply change the nature of the controversies141. No matter the sport, replays are not needed for most calls, especially the ones that referees can easily make based on what they saw. Instant replays142 are needed during questionable incidents when the call is not obvious. However, even in those cases, replays are not necessarily helpful. For example, in “the Tuck Rule game143," even after reviewing the incident, officials made the wrong call (after making the right one on the football field…). More examples can be found in Soccer, where the use of replays and VAR have not completely eliminated referee mistakes from the popular game. Replays144 don’t make games any fairer.

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