Quote:Refs should be full time positions and paid appropriately.  For an entity like the NFL, it is past time that they have an evaluation system.  

 

What makes you think the NFL doesn't have an evaluation system for officials?

 

Full time officials? Someone please explain what they would do.

 

Do you mean eight hours a day, fifty two weeks a year? Really, what would they do for the seven months out of season? Study film? lol

 

The main gripe I hear re officials' calls are, say, pass interference - i.e., very large, fast humans colliding - then we expect a perfect call. Then we watch a replay, in slow motion (at about a frame a minute) and still have a 50/50 opinion, depending on which team you are a fan of.

 

Challenges and replay help, but going full time I think is a false hope. If you can't live with human error I suggest you not watch football.

 

Do you see the Ohio State - Michigan game? Yet, I don't hear a cry for full-time officials for college ball.

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