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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CTD" data-source="post: 604594" data-attributes="member: 7402">Fixed or not, I have my opinion and it won't change the outcome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'll tell you though, what's really killing the game is technology. The ability to second guess the officials. The ability to view a replay and find out what really did happen. The ability for an announcer to replay a good pass and show you exactly where your defensive hero did the wrong thing and blew it.It suspends all the fun.It provides clairity.It would be much better for the NFL if the fans didn't know for sure (via a televised replay) that Joe Runningback fumbled the ball before he was down by contact. It would be much better if the fans thought that Recever Dan had both feet down on his end zone reception, despite being called out of bounds.By leaving the ambiguity in the game, and allowing the officials to be human (ie: wrong and not corrected by technology), you give people something to debate. Something to complain about. Something to be passionate about.With the advent of technology, everything is broken down in finite terms and definitions. The mystery is gone. The suspense is gone. We all know that the QB is going to throw a sideline pass with 8 seconds left in the game because that will give the team another 8+ yards, stopping the clock with 3 seconds left and improving their odds of a successful field goal by 23.45893% which is better than kicking where they are...This is the age of information (and I'm a computer technician not a Luddite), and it eliminates the human factor entirely. Which ruins the talk around the watercooler by giving facts instead of assumptions and differences in experience.That talk is the key to fandom, which is the key to the longevity of the game as a money making national sport.Or I'm an opinionated fool who thinks that the running into the kicker call was not a fix, it was a guy trying really hard to get that elusive block and save his team's future in the playoffs...</blockquote>

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