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Originally Posted by Eleazar
The same thing is happening in the Premier League.
Fans complain that you can't celebrate a goal anymore because the video assistant referee may disallow it for someone being offside by an eyelash. The accuracy of the technology is actually too much and it deflates the experience in the stadium especially.
The VAR officials are only supposed to take action if there's a clear and obvious error, but often on things like penalties they go from totally missing clear and obvious errors to overturning things that are judgement calls.
It's not just the NFL having an issue with over-officiating, it's a lot of sports
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The NHL was falling into that trap a few years back.
The offside rule was being used to disallow goals that were just clear goals and worse, they were getting hypertechnical in their enforcement. I was seeing a goal/wk being waved off because a player that was onside didn't have his skate on the ice due to a cross step or something and as a consequence was deemed to have not 'established' in the zone yet.
Fortunately they changed that particular aspect of the rule but there are still occasional ticky tack offsides reviews that are ancillary to the goal. To try to address those, I believe the NHL makes it a minor penalty now to request an offsides review on a goal if it's not overturned.
It just makes the product so much worse.