To: Richard Kimball
They have GOT to get decent, full-time officials, and quit making the referee job something a high school teacher does on the weekends. The use of part-time officials is one big thing the NFL has gotten right over the years. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there has never been a "high school teacher" working as an on-field NFL official in decades. The NFL insists on using part-time officials who are typically highly-respected, well-paid executives from Monday to Friday. They do this because a guy who is a regional vice president for Exxon/Mobil or Citicorp is far less likely to throw a game for gamblers than a high school gym teacher.
172 posted on
02/06/2006 8:23:01 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
The use of part-time officials is one big thing the NFL has gotten right over the years. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there has never been a "high school teacher" working as an on-field NFL official in decades. The NFL insists on using part-time officials who are typically highly-respected, well-paid executives from Monday to Friday. They do this because a guy who is a regional vice president for Exxon/Mobil or Citicorp is far less likely to throw a game for gamblers than a high school gym teacher.You've got a good point in terms of corruption, however, the rules have gotten so Byzantine that I wonder how well the part-time refs can really keep up with it. For example, the NFL made the "horse collar" tackle illegal this year. In the first two or three weeks of the game, I must've seen that penalty called a half-dozen times. Last night, I saw three horse-collar tackles that were uncalled. The problem is the rulebook, not the refs.
176 posted on
02/06/2006 8:25:59 AM PST by
Terabitten
(The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you're swimming.)
To: Alberta's Child
The guy who called the interception by the Steelers in the Colt's game was a high school principal. There was a story about it, because his house was vandalized after the game. They weren't sure if it was students or Steelers fans.
188 posted on
02/06/2006 8:34:14 AM PST by
Richard Kimball
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