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Originally Posted by KC_Lee
Was talking with my lady last night about this. My primary point was; if the NFL is going to take buckets and buckets of money from casinos & gambling sites, allow the Bet MGM Grands and Draft Kings of the world to advertise during games and dedicate time on pre-game shows to talking about betting on the games, you better goddamn be sure that your refs are spotless and consistent every game and every week.
The NFL demands that players and coaches be available to the press, how about doing the same thing for the refs? Make Cheffers and his crew sit at a podium, take questions and defend their calls and explain why they made a certain call at a certain time.
Players and coaches are not allowed to speak about the refs. It's like they are the Lord Voldemort of the NFL, we do not speak their names. The inconsistent nature of some calls by these officiating crews begs the question; why is the NFL so protective of the refs?
As Abe Lemons once said; "You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war they ought to give everyone a whistle."
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OUTSTANDING post. Rep...
And I think we're all beyond suspecting the NFL has configured the rules and selected the right employees to enforce them to maximize the profit the generate with the gambling community they've teamed up with.
It's funny that one of the replies to me when we were juxtaposing Sunday's offsides call against the previous week's non-call of DPI was that DPI "is subjective" (which is why I've added "XYZ is subjective" to my spin wheel of official's excuses used to defend a call they made to steer/manipulate the outcome of a game). The truth is that the reply, sadly, is accurate. That's an example of the tools the league has provided officials to allow them to maximise profit.
And it's NOT just the Chiefs, it can be any game or any team, and the outcome doesn't have to be a seemingly inferior team beating a seemingly superior team.
Sadly I don't think you'll see the 32 people who could change this being willing to upset the golden goose.