File under: major football problems with obvious solutions that the NFL chooses to ignore.
In the final minutes of today's Vikings-Packers game, Adrian Peterson broke free and managed to make it at least very close to the end zone, or maybe into it, before he got tackled. Either his knee was down before the ball, in his outstretched hands, crossed the goal line, or it wasn't. Clearly, an ideal candidate for a coach's challenge--except that the geniuses at Fox managed to capture the play exclusively from angles that were utterly useless to determine where the ball was when the runner's knee hit the turf. On the bright side, the number of unhelpful shots they were able to display was impressive.
Is there any good reason why the league doesn't just spring for one camera on each goal line, which doesn't ever move, and which is always filming? Wouldn't this be a trivial cost, with the promise to enhance the accuracy of touchdown calls substantially season after season? Will this change once Barack Obama is President?
[h/t my football-watching compatriot this morning, whose point this actually was]
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