NFL to experiment with on-field replay/shameless marketing tool

Since they can’t turn most preseason games into watchable football, the NFL is at least willing to use them as petri dishes.

The league announced that during four of this week’s exhibition games, and six more later in the preseason that they will test the use of Microsoft Surface tablet computers for the purpose of replay.

“The goal of experimenting with the tablets is to be more efficient in administering replay reviews,” NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said. “We would like to determine if we can streamline the process.”

The league tried this at last year’s Pro Bowl (where there should be no replay whatsoever) as well.

In theory, it saves the few moments it takes the official…