High School Instant Replay

The jury still seems to be out on instant replay. Not everyone likes it. Football has it. Baseball has it where they fake this communication with some imaginary off-sight referee in New York or someplace. Yeah, right. It’s all fake. Regardless, it seems like we have it backwards. We have instant replay at the pro level where we have the best referees and umpires in the world. We need it more at the lower levels. We need it at high school games.

As we often attempt to do here at Uncle Tommy, we have a solution to the issue. The only requirement is that it must be a game covered by local radio. Let’s say there is a question in a football game regarding whether a player stepped out of bounds or not. Under our Uncle Tommy plan, the refs would huddle, listen to a slow motion replay of the radio announcer’s call of the play, and then decide if they were going to reverse the call on the field.

OK. Maybe it’s not very high tech, but at least it’s real. And the delay in the game will help the cross-country parents sell more popcorn at the concession stand.