As I'm doing football this afternoon, a thought has occurred to me.

Why are we still using the, let the ref eyeball it, method of determining the line of scrimmage? With GPS, laser diode surveying, and all the other tricks and technological innovations that there are in the world, shouldn't we be doing something about the inequity in terms of setting the line of scrimmage?

Why not put some kind of sensor in the ball? Give the linesman a handheld reciever and instead of eyeballing it, he can know the precise location of the ball, at all times. Put some decent software on the device, and it'll tell him the farthest point achieved by the ball, and the location can be known precisely. Then we don't need this stupidity of arguing about the spot of the ball, especially on short yardage situations. Haven't we all groaned as we've watched the refs mark the ball 3 chain links short of a first down? Its stupid and bizarre that we've let this idiocy continue as long as we have.

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