[Abundy]

Plaintiffs always go for the deep pockets. That’s not the officials, but the owners and the league itself.

First, the officials' business entity has insurance - and that pocket will be deep.

Second, it will take a lawsuit and discovery against the officials to generate enough evidence against the NFL to pierce the assumption of risk defense that the NFL enjoys.

[EDINVA]

So the strategy would be first to sue some officials individually and/or their association/union, and anticipate that the officials will say they were instructed by either their union/association or by the NFL itself not to call certain violations, even tho they’re written in the rules?