10-24-2023, 03:35 PM
(10-22-2023, 09:08 PM)Nepa Wrote: There's a TV commercial where the fans are anxiously anticipating the winning score, then are dismayed when it fails, and then they are delighted because "wait, there's a flag on the play."
This has become the NFL, where the referees so often become the story of the game. Just google the Colts-Browns game and see all the critical comments, including from popular figures like Mike Greenberg.
If the refs are going to be the third team on the field, then this team should be made of full-time refs, who get publicly graded on their performance, and, in the interest of transparency, the league office notes the egregious blown calls and who made the calls. There is too much money at stake in the modern NFL to continue with these part-time refs.
Unless the we have government regulation on the officiating it's not going to change. With the gambling it has to have some oversite & needs full time refs who don'nt even like football. Games might not be scripted but they sure can change an outcome with just 1 terrible call or terrible no call.
