This year’s Pro Bowl will be used to experiment with a variety of new procedures. Most already were known. One potentially significant one wasn’t.
Per Darren Rovell of ESPN.com, replay review during the Pro Bowl will be conducted via review of the play on a Microsoft Surface tablet -- and with communication via Bose headphones.
That replaces the voting-booth approach the NFL has used since replay review returned well over a decade ago, with the referee examining a monitor hidden behind a curtain.
Per Rovell, the change is part of an effort to better integrate the products for which the NFL is paid millions of dollars to use. It’s unclear whether the NFL will ditch the mobile replay unit and use tablets exclusively for games that count.
