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Since NFL owners last week added pass interference to the purview of replay reviews, the doom-and-gloom brigade keeps predicting the sky will fall.

That chaos is upon us. Oh no!

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That coaches now will challenge every important pass play late in every drawn-out game!

That pass interference (PI) calls will be overturned, and non-calls flagged after the fact, left and right! To the point no one will know anymore what is PI and what isn’t!

Is all that likely to happen?

No. Especially if the CFL’s successful five-year history of reviewing PI is a useful gauge.

In a phone interview on Friday, the CFL’s senior director of officiating, Darren Hackwood, explained how PI reviews specifically work in the three-down league. Most importantly, he said the CFL has two strict criteria for PI overturns:

Clear.

Obvious.

A replay cliche, for sure. But as Hackwood explained, it’s not lip service.

More on that in a moment.