>>It could take some seconnds for the TV referee to watch all the camera angles.
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>>And so what if it does???
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>You quoted how it didn't spoil NHL so I had a look
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>from wiki
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>Each National Hockey League regulation game is an ice hockey game played between two teams and is 60 minutes long. The game is composed of three 20-minute periods with an intermission of either 15½ or 17 minutes (if nationally televised) between periods.[54] Television timeouts are taken at the first stoppage of play after 6, 10, and 14 minutes of elapsed time unless there is a power play or the first stoppage is the result of a goal. TV timeouts are two minutes long, and occur three times per period
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>So you have 20 minute plays with 3 stops of 2 minutes I'm not surprised you don't find the TV checking affects the flow of the game.
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>Football is 45 minutes each way no stops for anything.

The clock may not stop but the action certainly does.

After each goal there is a short(?) stoppage while the players have group hugs, celebrate, and show off for the crowd. They then head back to the middle of the field and restart the action. Extending this stoppage by an additional minute so the replay referee can validate a goal hardly interrupts the flow of the game. Simply add that time to stoppage time at the end of the period.

If a goal is scored but the player is ruled offside the clock doesn't stop but the action certainly does while the players jog downfield and the goalie prepares. Having a replay official spend 30 seconds to verify the offsides call won't materially affect the action and you can add that time to stoppage time.

I'll conceed that are times when it may not be possible to stop play without affecting the game. A non-goal call where goalie grabs the ball and immediately launches a counter-attack (sound familiar?) is one example. I'm not sure exactly how that should be handled and it may become simply bad-luck, etc. But IMO the overwhelming percentage of the time the flow of the game won't be at all affected.