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 Two more naysayers embrace replay
Posted: Wednesday March 17, 1999 10:13 AM
Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King checks in from the NFL owners meetings in Arizona. After a seven-year absence, instant replay is a day or two away from being reinstituted as an NFL officiating aid. On the first full day of the NFL meetings in Phoenix, longtime replay foes Tampa Bay and Buffalo confirmed to CNN/SI that they’ll switch to yes votes. Along with expansion Cleveland, that’ll push replay over the top with three-quarters of the NFL vote. Minnesota coach Dennis Green told me why replay’s time has come. “I think that finally everyone feels that we need to take this next step,” said Green, a member of the league’s competition committee. “Indeed, that it’s an officiating tool, that indeed during the course of a ballgame if there’s something that really goes wrong you have a chance to challenge that and a chance to make it right. I think we’ll get enough votes to get it passed.” Changing placesA busy personnel day here in the desert: the Lions have tentatively agreed to send quarterback Scott Mitchell to Baltimore on Tuesday for a third-round pick and a conditional pick in 1999. When that happens, the Ravens will dump Jim Harbaugh on San Diego for a low-round choice. Speaking of quarterbacks, Bills owner Ralph Wilson told me that Buffalo will not trade its first $5 million a year quarterback, Rob Johnson, in the wake of signing its second, Doug Flutie, to a four-year, $22 million extension on Monday. And what about the starriest out-of-work quarterback, Jeff George? Well, George told his agent, Leigh Steinberg, that he wants to go to Seattle, but the Seahawks have no interest in George. Look for George to land in Minnesota as a backup after the NFL draft.
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