Sports activities followers constantly yearn for know-how that removes errors from the sport.
Robotic umpires to name balls and strikes in baseball are normally on the prime of the listing. However there may be additionally a smaller, quieter push for soccer to have a extra scientific approach to measure for first downs in soccer as an alternative of trotting out the “chain gang” to find out if a workforce gained the required yardage.
That know-how is meant to reach subsequent season with the “Hawk-eye” system, similar to what we see in soccer with VAR and tennis to find out whether or not a ball is hit in bounds or out of bounds.
That know-how is being examined this preseason, and it debuted on Friday within the New York Giants-Detroit Lions sport at MetLife Stadium.
It obtained off to a rocky begin.
Following a Nate Sudfeld completion to broad receiver Tom Kennedy on a third-and-five within the second quarter, the Hawk-eye know-how was utilized to find out if the Lions had reached the primary down marker.
It took practically three-and-a-half minutes till the ball was snapped for the subsequent play, prompting former NFL quarterback Phil Simms to ask if they’d nonetheless be prepared to make use of this know-how if it took that lengthy.
