Video Replays and Coach Challenges

No offense, but it would be a lot easier if you just looked up the NFL rule book to answer these type of questions. A challange can occur on most any play if a coach is willing to throw the challange flag. Inside of the two minute markers the coach cannot challange a play but the challanges come from a video referee in a booth. The box the ref looks into is just a camera that has access to every angle the NFL camera crews have. Its just a way for the ref can look at the play without the distractions from the outside world.

so do they show the replays on the big screen so the crowd can see?

also, why aren't coaches allowed to challenge a play in the final 2 minutes of each half?

yeah, the stadium has its own cameras and angles, and what is shown on the big screen is up to that stadiums producers and video directors. It has nothing to do with the refs, or the NFL

Gilette? Wow, I might have just found my fav team!!

the Pats of course!!

I hate to say it but I actually agree with pnatt. The booth thing looks so seventies-ish. You'd think the NFL could fork over some $ for some fancier looking technology.

Who cares what it looks like? Its a black box thats on air for maybe 5 mins a game

The black box thing looks nuts. Surely the ref can manage distractions from the outside world without the box thing.

Well? Anyone agree?

What does it mean when the BOOTH challenges the play?

Can the video referee in the booth challenge a play outside the two-minute warning?