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Originally Posted by HPF Bob
Saw this comment on the thread about the conference championship officiating debacles:
"The NFL tried once to have an all-female officiating crew but they had to scrap the idea because the women kept throwing flags over plays that happened years ago."
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Even I can admit that that's kind of funny. Maybe because I'm married.
I used to think that the NFL was by far the best officiated major sports league. And I'm pretty sure it was. How things change. The MLB umpiring brotherhood is full of entitled dickheads who get a laughable number of close plays wrong never mind their consistently terrible strike zones never mind complete flustercucks like Joe West a couple of months ago. There is no accountability and no real appetite to bring more technology to the way the game is umpired, and that I think is a mistake.
The NBA is flat out rigged. How anyone can watch it is beyond me.
The NFL, well, yesterday we saw the best of the league in terms of the excitement of the games (reminding me why I love that weekend so much), and we saw the worst of the officiating. I don't know how you fix this. Do you give teams the ability to challenge every fking thing? Maybe. I don't know. The problem is, half the time when it gets looked at New York makes the wrong call anyway. The officiating is having a serious, negative impact on my enjoyment of the games, and I am certain I'm not alone in this. But again, I don't know how you solve this.