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Football Officiating => General Discussion => Topic started by: Legacy Zebra on June 10, 2014, 11:56:31 PM

Title: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: Legacy Zebra on June 10, 2014, 11:56:31 PM

The CFL is now allowing DPI to be reviewed. Both flagged and unflagged plays are up for review if a coach wants to challenge the play.

http://cfl.ca/article/up-for-review-pi-challenge-makes-debut-in-pre-season (http://cfl.ca/article/up-for-review-pi-challenge-makes-debut-in-pre-season)

Title: Re: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: VALJ on June 11, 2014, 07:15:32 AM

Yikes.

Title: Re: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: Rulesman on June 11, 2014, 09:42:12 AM

The naturally cold weather has frozen their brains.  :sTiR:

Title: Re: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: HLinNC on June 11, 2014, 11:03:28 AM

I note they have no US broadcast partner again.  NBCSN carried a few games last summer.  I would much rather the NFL Network carry CFL games instead of "The Most Stupendously 100 Top Players of 2010" or "The Top 10 On Field Streaking Incidents".

I like the CFL, at least to fill the void.  It is more like football than the Arena League.

Title: Re: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: Rulesman on June 11, 2014, 11:40:26 AM

No interest in the CFL = no broadcast partner. It's a lot cheaper to televise recorded junk over and over than it is to broadcast a live game. How they can justify interest in the junk, however, is anybody's guess.

Title: Re: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: HLinNC on June 11, 2014, 01:00:27 PM

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It's a lot cheaper to televise recorded junk over and over than it is to broadcast a live game.

If they were having to produce it yes, but all they would have to do is pick up the TSN feed and re-transmit.  That is essentially what they will do for Thursday Night Football with CBS this fall.  I assume they will have to produce their own pre-, halftime, and post- programs when they carry the games.

Title: Pandora's Box may have been opened
Post by: TxSkyBolt on June 11, 2014, 08:57:37 PM

They don't get that feed for free.


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