NFL officiating has long been a sore subject. After all, refs are just people, and as such, are just as prone to mistakes and biases as the rest of us. There were bad calls in the 60’s. There were bad calls in the 80’s and 90’s. Terrible calls in the aughts. Recently though, things seem to have gotten worse. More and more, officials are significantly impacting, or as was the case in Monday night’s Lions Packers game, outright determining the outcome of games. Has something changed, or has it always been this way and we are only just now realizing it?
Sky Judge and the NFL of Tomorrow: Football’s Officiating Problem and (Maybe) How to Deal With It
