Bad NFL officiating leads to fan mistrust

Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty ImagesJokes about umpires, referees, and other game officials in all sports abound. I remember the first baseball umpire joke I ever read as a kid:

Following a called strike that a batter thought was particularly egregious, the hitter turned to the umpire behind the plate, named Moriarty, and asked him to spell his name. The umpire, slightly bemused, did as he was asked. “That’s what I thought,” said the aggrieved batsman. “Moriarty with one eye.”

Skip Bayless said recently that Jerry Jones believes that the mistakes made by officials are good for the game because it gives people something to talk about the next day. You know the old maxim, ‘There’s no such thing as…