As I said, it's all about making fans feel better. I can't speak for NFL refs, but I know that at the college and HS level, they review video extensively to look at calls, no calls, and many other aspects of officiating the game. We do the same in baseball, have meetings, go to camps, etc. This is all to improve and to deliver the best officiating product on the field that we can.

What other professions "have to admit a mistake when they happen?" Do you regularly see doctors, lawyers, mechanics, etc out in the public admitting mistakes they make? And people don't get thrown out when they simply question officials. Other sports have a penalty of some kind (15 yd unsportsmanlike conduct, technical foul and free throws) for abusing officials. Baseball has no such penalty, so warning and/or ejection is the only tool for keeping control of the game. But we don't use it when questioned. We use it for specific unsporting acts, including abuse.

Did you stop reading my post before the last paragraph?

The difference is that Collinsworth let his vagina spew all over a prime time game, then the NFL made an emphasis on it. It wasn't interpreted as let's crack down on this league wide, it was let's target this one guy. I wish announcers could be fined or suspended, between this and Olsen we would be collecting name tags.

Everyone hates us.

Soak it in. Bask in it. It’s glorious.

Olsen complaining about the penalty on the hit to Pacheco's head was the latest example of his verbal diarrhea during Chiefs games

I think it's wrong to target one player specifically and throw flags when they did nothing wrong. Honestly it has to be some sort of discrimination.

Yes, a press conference after every game would work. It may take a month, but eventually NFL refs won't like what happens when their face, and name, get printed in the paper, and plastered all over the internet, along with descriptions or a video clip of their incompetence.

And then they would actually have to explain why they called a play dead because of forward progress, when the ENTIRE ****ing world saw a routine sack. And then their idiotic explanation will also be plastered all over the internet.

The scrutiny of a press conference, and the almost certain cottage industry of memeing refs and their bad calls or ridiculous explanations, would absolutely make an official think twice before watching a receiver get targeted and blown up with the ball in the air, and NOT throwing a flag.

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