[steveegg]

That will never happen, and for good reason. The NFL insists on using officials who are well-paid, highly-respected professionals in other walks of life -- because it makes them far less likely to fix games for gamblers.

As opposed to fixing games for the networks, specifically NBC (widely believed to have turned the NBA into a fix-them-all league when they held the broadcast rights)?

[Alberta's Child]

I think it's safe to say that the networks have no influence over the outcome of NFL games. If they did, you never would have seen so many bad ratings-generating teams make it to the Super Bowl in recent years (Carolina, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, etc.).