The seminal moment in the development of a coach-driven SkyJudge proposal happened in a conference room at the Indiana Convention Center on a cold February day. The group, made up of the coaches subcommittee and the NFL’s competition committee, had retiring referee Walt Anderson, who’d spent 24 seasons officiating pro football and was moving into a senior role at the league, in the room.
He was asked a simple question: What do you want?
“Well, I don’t want to be on SportsCenter on Monday,” he responded.
Right there, the coaches’ fight was boiled down to one sentence.