Instant replay in sports?

[Tanthalasis]

I know, isn't it great. Vancouver has gone from a "No chance in hell of making the playoffs" to in the playoffs. Sugoi, ne? As for NJ, Colorado, AND Detriot. They're all american teams, and as such, have NEVER been on my good list. <i>If I teach you nothing else<
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[IJzebel]

Ya...I don't think they do....That is why they do't get why we're so depressed...:P<
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>They wanna censor the replay's now huh..? <
><i><b>Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But peoplehave always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. Theywonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers ofdictionaries look up the spelling of words.</i></b><i></i>

[zhype]

That's to protect the referee. He makes decisions in a split second. And sometimes makes mistakes. The WC is now in Korea, so there aren't that many foreign soccerfans there. But imagine it was in europe with 20,000 supporters on each side of the stadium. And the ref makes a few mistakes all in favor of one team... <
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>The don't show reruns in Dutch stadiums for a while now. <i></i>

[IJzebel]

I read somewhere (Varagids. :P) they said tha Soccer will never work in a country like the States, it's cuz of the commercial
eaks. there's just halftime in Soccer, too little time for commercials every three miutes! <
><i><b>Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But peoplehave always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. Theywonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers ofdictionaries look up the spelling of words.</i></b><i></i>

[zhype]

I've heard that too, maybe if they introduced time outs in the game then it would work. But it's commercially not attractive to air soccer in it's current form. <i></i>

[DEVILRAYS]

I would have thought that having fewer commercial
eaks would be attractive to viewers...or maybe we're a nation of people used to commercials every 10 minutes. Hockey usually has one TV timeout per period and commercials are often 20-30 minutes between. Major League Soccer (yeah, what a great name) is usually
oadcast over here commercial-free for halves at a time, but they slip in sponsors anyway, usually saying, "This first half of the Kansas City-New England game is presented commercial free by Snickers" or something like that. <B>God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam; God bless America, my home sweet home; God bless America, my home sweet home.</B><
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[IJzebel]

Oh when I was in America, it drove me completely mad when they'd have
eaks every freaking ten minutes. And even more at times! Every five minutes!!! I hipe it 'll never come to that here. We even had whole rows when they wantd to air commercials after the show that was before the news... <
><i><b>Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But peoplehave always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. Theywonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers ofdictionaries look up the spelling of words.</i></b><i></i>

[Nakor BlueRider]

<b><i>Quote:</i></b> Hockey usually has one TV timeout per period and commercials are often 20-30 minutes between.<
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>Hockey Night in Canada puts in 2 or 3
eaks of a couple minutes apiece per period (never missing any action), and then runs about 10 minutes between the periods, along with a little commentary. And Don Cherry, whom I can't stand. <i></i>

[DEVILRAYS]

At least they don't try to cram commercials between faceoffs like NBC did during the Olympics...you ended up missing the faceoffs themselves because NBC doesn't know how to
oadcast hockey. <B>God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam; God bless America, my home sweet home; God bless America, my home sweet home.</B><
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[IJzebel]

They did something like that with the Olypmics too. Our commentator was saying things like.."Oh, the AMericans are going to
eaks again..." and we could see some other stuff going on in the stadium.<
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>If soemthing like what oyu just said happened here, they'd get BIG riots I think. <
><i><b>Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But peoplehave always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. Theywonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers ofdictionaries look up the spelling of words.</i></b><i></i>

[Nsider Golduck2000]

i think thats stoopid trying to fit commercials in between faceoffs. <i></i>

[bacardi whiteboy]

yes but only on important plays <i></i>