Given their increased amount of TV time, NFL refs can now join SAG, the Screen Actors Guild, and will be eligible to win Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The NFL, like MLB and the NBA, is eager to devour itself from the inside out for its inability to apply foresight. Thus, the NFL is becoming flag football.
And there is no greater mindless addition to game-killing “instant” replay reviews than the chance for teams to have pass interference calls and no-calls undergo microscopic, slow-motion and freeze-frame examination.
This added rule is a colossal knee-jerk response to that flagless interference call in last season’s Rams-Saints NFC Championship, a non-call so egregious it stood out as a rarity and calamity.