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jerseyfighting posted @ 2015年11月18日 17:08 in 未分类 with tags new nfl Jersey , 35 阅读

At some point, the NFL must make us stop Jay Bromley Youth Jersey talking about the league's officiating problems. It's going to have to embrace that nothing gets missed anymore inside this massive dome of popularity, whether it's from the nitpicky eyes of fans, media, coaches, players or executives. This is the new normal: When officials blow a significant call, someone is going to notice … and soon thereafter, it'll be a major talking point. This is the price of having the most popular sports product in America. It's always under the surgical knife of social media – in real time. Which brings us to Tuesday, with the NFL's head of officiating Dean Blandino apologizing for another embarrassing late-game mistake by one of his crews. This time it was a missed false-start penalty that would have ended a game in favor of the Baltimore Ravens. Instead the Jacksonville Jaguars got in position to kick a game-winning field goal as time expired. Most annoying about that moment: When it happened, social media threw its own penalty flag immediately. Individuals watching the game in real time saw the mistake. But the NFL? Its officials missed it, and the league office has no mechanism to immediately step in and correct the error. Instead, the game turned, the Ravens shrugged in frustration, and Blandino emerged Tuesday to once again say, "Whoops. We'll do better next time." That's an atrocious flaw, largely because Ka'Deem Carey Womens Jersey it's unnecessary. It's the NFL, a product that generates billions of dollars annually. The league is at the forefront of technology in how games are consumed. When Twitter is calling games better than the league, there is a problem. But therein lies the rub. This can be fixed. Here's how: Place the final minutes of each NFL game under live review from the central command center in New York. This hub is already being used to confer with officials on instant replay, so give it an additional purpose. Assign extra officials in that center to watch the final minutes of games (two minutes, four, five, whatever makes the most sense), and when they see fit, give them the power and discretion to step in and make a phone call in real time. Employ this, and it's likely the Jaguars would have been (correctly) called for a false start Sunday, and the game ends. Employ this, and we don't suddenly have 18 seconds vanish in the Pittsburgh Steelers' victory against the San Diego Chargers earlier this season. Employ it and the Detroit Lions don't suffer from an illegally batted football out of the back of the end zone in a loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Cynics are rolling their eyes at the thought of this. There will be arguments about how it could potentially lengthen a game or take some of the discretionary power off the field. That's understandable. But what is more important: getting potentially season-impacting calls correct or shaving a few minutes off a game and making sure the officials don't get their feelings hurt? Everyone is going to have a different http://www.broncosnflofficialprostore.com/Duke_Ihenacho_Jersey answer for that. Here's mine: A correctly officiated finish that is determined by the players on the field, and not someone's bad judgment or inability to see a play (or understand a rule). An entire week of preparation and minutiae by two teams shouldn't be rendered meaningless because one person wearing a black-and-white shirt didn't see something that everyone else did. Fans who shelled out several hundred dollars for tickets, parking and concessions shouldn't leave knowing that a loss was actually a win.


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