Instant replay of Brunell the crossing line of scrimmage
 

Has anybody heard any of the sports shows or announcers talking about this call? Probably not because it didn't affect the outcome of the game, but what if Brunell had thrown a touchdown on the play?

I didn't know that penalties could be called on instant replay (which is exactly what happened). There was no flag thrown on the field. So how is that reviewable? Am I missing something?

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[QUOTE=htownskinfan]has anybody heard any of the sports shows or announcers talking about this call? probably not because it didnt affect the outcome,but what if Brunell had threw a td on the play,I didnt know instant replay could call a penalty which is exactly what happened,there was no flag thrown on the field so how is that reviewable? am I missing something?[/QUOTE]
EXACTLY! There was no flag and then replay can call a penalty?? What's up with that??

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I thought the same thing, but I don't know if there are different rules on the booth's challenges and the coache's callenges or not.

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wasn't it inside the two minutes? if then the challenge came from the booth, not from the field.

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Still, there was no call on the field to challenge! I'm a little suspicious of this one myself.

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[url]http://www.nfl.com/news/990526replaytechnology.html[/url]
NFL introduces Instant Replay technology
1999 Rules of Replay
Coaches challenge: Outside the final two minutes of each half, each team will be permitted two challenges per game that will initiate referee reviews. Each challenge will cost a team a time-out. If a challenge is upheld, the time-out will be restored, but the challenge will not. No challenges will be recognized from a team that has exhausted its time-outs.

Final two minutes of each half: After the two-minute warning of each half, and throughout any overtime period, any referee review will be initiated by the replay assistant in the replay booth in the press box. He can initiate as many review requests as he thinks necessary, no matter how many time-outs the teams may have. No time-out will be charged for a review initiated from the replay booth.

Referee review: All replay reviews will be conducted by the referee on a field-level monitor after consultation with the other covering officials on the play. A decision will be reversed only when the referee has indisputable visual evidence that the call should be changed. The referee cannot initiate a replay in any instance.

Time limit: Reviews will be a maximum of 90 seconds, timed from when the referee puts on the head phones to the replay booth.

Reviewable plays: The instant replay system will cover a variety of plays in three main areas — 1) sideline, goal line, end zone, and end-line plays; 2) passing plays; and 3) other detectable infractions, such as a runner ruled down not by defensive contact, and the number of players on the field.

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I was signing on to ask this same question. I understood they could review a spot, whether there was a reception, fumble, etc, but not a penalty that was not called on the field.


How many times has there been pass interference not called. They never went to the review box to decide on whether there was a penalty or not.

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Yeah, there is something to that. After all, if the refs can review a penality, then I think it's only fair that coaches should be able to challenge any obvious bad penality call as well.

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That should be a new rule next year. Each team should be allowed an additional challenge per game for a bad penalty or non penalty call.

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If the NFL is going to make rules where a ref's penality call cannot be challenged, then they should not be able to review a play and then throw a penality...especially since there was no penality called in the first place.

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[QUOTE=skinsguy]If the NFL is going to make rules where a ref's penality call cannot be challenged, then they should not be able to review a play and then throw a penality...especially since there was no penality called in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Right. You can't use IR to CALL a penalty. Bunch of horse crap. I've never seen it before.

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I think this is the first time I have seen a non penalty call reviewed.


I have seen it for spot, touchdown/no touchdown, fumble/no fumble, completion/incompletion.

Unless as the previous post quoted, this falls within one of the reviewable infractions. I haven't heard of this. Wouldn't that have to mean that a coach could challenge if a qb was over the line of scrimmage, as well?

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In my opinion the safety call and the over the line call should be NOT be reviewable.They should be treated like pass interference calls not reviewable because it is a "judgement" call.

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The "public" rulebook says that an official in the final two minutes of a half may only rule on "possession or position".

I think the officials blew this one.

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Yes. Can someone find out if a play has been reviewed ever when a penalty was not called? This must be a first where the replay official threw the flag! Can coaches challenge a play when no penalty was called and get one called?