One of the most baffling things about the NFL to me has been its systematic undervaluing of the function of officiating in its game. You never want the officials to be the story after a game, but it happens often enough that rules almost every offseason it seems get passes that seek to take some power away from them or that directly address one of their mistakes.
In spite of the criticism of the quality of officiating, the NFL has largely done little to address this. While they recently began allowing a select number of officials to be full-time employees, the majority of them remained employed on a part-time basis, meaning that that literally have other jobs in the offseason.