Bass’s missed XP

[Zag20]

 just duct tape some pvc pipe to the top of the upright for gosh sakes 

[YattaOkasan]

1 hour ago, BuffaloRebound said:

it’s an extremely subjective call when it’s above the goalpost, similar to when the ball is punted out of bounds and where they determine it went out.  

But it doesn’t have to be. We can definitely measure its position. We decide not to. There are other objective things we make subjective. Like delay of game (would’ve hurt us) and ineligible man down field (would’ve helped us). Objective things should be reviewable and would stop teams from pushing the edge. 

[HurlyBurly51]

 

[That's No Moon]

14 minutes ago, Rubes said:

Might be tough to make a call especially if there is just enough wind to make the uprights shake a bit.

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Why? The post is where the post is even if it's moving in the wind.  Have a reticle on the lens. Wherever the middle of the post is will be shown whether it's moving or not.  You do get into a question of where the center line of the football is though.  It's easy when it's going directly end over end, but when it's wobbly the center of the ball moves on each rotation.  Though, if we can have a photo finish at horse races where they can see if the horse's tongue hairs crossed the finish line first I'd think we could have a good enough camera to see that also.

[Jukester]

We’ve got technology in baseball that shows the distance, trajectory and path of home runs. Tennis has Hawkeye that can show the ball to within millimeters of the lines. 
 

The nfl on the other hand still relies on the chain gang to measure first downs and subjective ref eyes staring up at goalposts to assess field goals. Enough said 

[That's No Moon]

5 minutes ago, YattaOkasan said:

But it doesn’t have to be. We can definitely measure its position. We decide not to. There are other objective things we make subjective. Like delay of game (would’ve hurt us) and ineligible man down field (would’ve helped us). Objective things should be reviewable and would stop teams from pushing the edge. 

Yeah, the delay of game thing is weird to me.  Why is there not a huge red light like an NBA shot clock?  Either the light is on or it's not.

[QB Bills]

I have a kind of radical solution to this. Put a crossbar on the top as well and make it so the kick has to go through that enclosed rectangle. You make kicks a bit harder by not allowing the kicker to just kick it as hard and high as they want. And you eliminate this silliness of a judgement of whether the kick would have went in if the posts were higher.

Edited 2 hours ago by QB Bills

[sven233]

In today's world, you'd think the league that just prints money, could find a way to put a couple sensors on top of the goal posts, or use some sort of computer program, that could virtually extend the goal posts high enough to remove all doubt on these types of kicks.  There is no reason you can't use technology to take all of the judgement out of these kicks.