Word: replaying
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When three blatant officiating blunders led to losses for the Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers in recent weeks, the whole playoff picture was torn from its frame. The NFL politburo announced that instant replay, in use from 1986 to 1991, may be revived for the playoffs...
Legitimate concerns, but guess what, guys? Air-traffic control is complicated. So is gene splicing. But reviewing a 5-yd. run on instant replay? Is there any good reason, with a game on the line, a season on the line, maybe the Super Bowl on the line, that everyone but the referees should have the benefit of technology that's roughly 35 years...
Green is a man whose only apparent touchdown in an eight-year career was called back after an instant replay. But not only does he also want the replay back and want it now, he wants the league to get to work on a laser-detection system to determine whether a ball crosses the goal line or a ball carrier steps on the sideline...
...deny Moses entry? In God's own words, "You disobeyed my command about the waters of Meribah." In a close replay of an earlier crisis, the people run out of water and "join against" their now 119-year-old leader. As before, God advises Moses, telling him to gather the people with his staff and "order the rock to yield its water." As he has done previously, Moses strikes the rock with his rod and out flows the water. His sin, as best as anyone can determine, is that he struck rather than spoke...
Marino started Miami's comeback, going 5-for-5 in a 69-yard drive and hitting a diving Troy Drayton with a 2-yard touchdown pass on third down. Drayton caught a break from the officials, because a television replay showed he didn't have control of the ball when he landed in the end zone...