Last year, the Cleveland Browns sort-of got an NFL referee fired over a missed false start in a game they played against the Chargers. About a month earlier, Packers coach Mike McCarthy freaked out and screamed at the referees after Clay Matthews was flagged for roughing a passer on a call that’s considered by most to be questionable at best. These were not the first – and probably not the last – cases when the decisions of the referees were questioned. While in the case of Matthews there is more than meets the eye – what most fans and McCarthy didn’t see as a foul may count as one under the rules – there are enough cases when the cameras see one thing, the public sees another, and the referees seem to see something completely different.
Would a Video Referee Be Useful in Football?
