What Does NFL Replay, George Lucas, and The Dude Who Built A Sex Doll of His Ex-Girlfriend All Have in Common?
They all wastefully strive for precision. George Lucas has spent the past 20 years trying "perfect" his Star Wars movies and he basically ended up defacing them. Literally. He's added in all these stupid digital creatures to his original trilogy and by making the prequels, totally bastardized and cheapened the brand. Fine, he made a ton of money. Who cares? You don't take it with you. He already had more money than he or his children or his children's children would ever know what to do with.
Last week, I linked to this funny story about a guy who designed a sex doll like his ex-girlfriend, except she had bigger boobs. Same idea. Guy is delusional.
And the NFL is doing the equivalent with instant replay. Taking something really really good - ie Star War, a hot girlfriend and trying to make it perfect (see Phantom Menace and digitally enhanced Star Wars original and sex doll replica with bigger boobs) and in the process totally destroying the whole thing.
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This has been getting worse for a few years now in the NFL and it has started to leak over into other sports as well. College Basketball has allowed the refs to stop and watch replays in certain cases and so of course it's in their interest to do this whenever the chance arises because their job could be on the line and it completely screws up the flow of the game. I don't think the soccer higher ups in the world cup and what not are stupid enough to think of using some kind of instant replay for offsides calls or something but it is so weird that fans demand it. Its like they don't understand the consequences of getting the calls right a small percentage more of the time. Its a culture wrought on over reaction and implementing laws to try and "fix" things that are on the far far probability of occurring or even being fixable just because the event or crime that happens has a huge emotional response attached to it. Sad that it has crept over into sports. These are games. Have people forgotten what it was to play a game growing up - the missed calls - faking - real life - these were all elements of it. TV has a lot to do with and the huge jump HD coverage has made in the past few years - people watch these on tv and it can be so obvious that a call was missed vs. if you're watching it live its hard to know because you are further away and trust that the refs have a better view than you but that's not the case anymore. And in a sport like soccer with a big field and a lot of ground for a ref to cover it gets amplified. The money argument will come up that because of money there is more at stake for each call - but that is just a fallacy. When the sports industry fixes its games so that they are no longer games it won't have be making any money.
at lunch i caught part of the AC Milan game on tv and noticed they didn't even have a scorecard or a list of who was playing who on the screen. it was totally minimalist and refreshing to see vs. all the nonsense on the nfl screen.
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