tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post5546713086852604275..comments2023-07-02T04:32:09.689-04:00Comments on Oblong Spheroid: Completing The ProcessChris Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996455466572610983noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-22252123424058230972010-09-15T10:44:33.011-04:002010-09-15T10:44:33.011-04:00Joe Posnanski:
"Anyway, the Calvin Johnson c...Joe Posnanski:<br /><br />"Anyway, the Calvin Johnson call may have been technically right (and I should add for clarification that it was called that way on the field initially — NOT on replay. It was confirmed on replay). But the way I saw it, the call was certainly wrong. That is: Johnson caught the ball. I think that without the emphasis on every little detail, before people started watching every tiny flutter of the ball and worrying about obscure add-ons to confusing statutes to unclear rules, that would have been without hesitation ruled a catch and a touchdown. I believe it would have been called a catch in 1950 and it would have been a catch in 1970 and it would have been a catch in 1990 (Did you EVER hear about this “going to the ground” rule before three or four years ago?) It would have been a catch during recess, and it would have been a catch in the CFL and it would have been a catch in college football, and it would have been a catch in electric football. It would have been a catch because the eyes tell you that he caught the ball.<br /><br />That, I think, is the human element.<br /><br />And maybe we ARE losing that. Maybe that is a by-product of instant replay. In many ways we don’t look at plays anymore. No, we break plays down into molecules. We run the play back and forth, back and forth, magnify it 20 times its normal size, then sharpen the focus. We use high-definition graphics to give us another viewpoint. We go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper in an effort to get things “right,” and maybe we do that so intently that eventually a wide receiver makes what looks to everyone like a clear catch and the officials call it incomplete because of a long, baffling and illogical series of rules that were devised because we now have the technology to enforce them."Patrick Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08457532328133529987noreply@blogger.com