There were eight accepted penalties and one booth initiated replay review inside of two minutes as the Denver Broncos were swept by the Los Angeles Chargers. One obscure ruling, and a total unwillingness to throw flags against the Chargers were defining themes from the officials.
Officiating for Rookies
This game brought me back to being a new official. When I first started officiating, we would spend hours going through the rulebook. Section by section reading it, discussing it, being quizzed on it. Fair-catch kicks are something that almost any decent football official knows very well about and has probably answered tens or hundreds of exam questions about, even though I went my entire career without seeing one.