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For me, more worrying than a spotter acting on league orders to remove a player to promote an agenda is a spotter who just has a personal favorite team and acts in the benefit of that team.
I know a lot of doctors who are huge NFL fans. I imagine they are not as carefully vetted for bias as a ref is, for instance (wasn't there a replacement ref a couple years back that turned out to be a huge Saints fan?). I could easily see one of those doctors looking at a judgement call on a concussion and either leaving the QB in if he plays for the doctor's favorite team or taking the QB on the other team out.
It's hard to remove that bias. Could any of you take Brady out in the Superbowl if that were your charge and you saw him hit his head on the ground? Would you have to think longer about taking Russell Wilson out? The spotters are only human.
(Wilson is probably a bad example since the magic water he drinks prevents him from getting concussions, but you get the idea).
I know a lot of doctors who are huge NFL fans. I imagine they are not as carefully vetted for bias as a ref is, for instance (wasn't there a replacement ref a couple years back that turned out to be a huge Saints fan?). I could easily see one of those doctors looking at a judgement call on a concussion and either leaving the QB in if he plays for the doctor's favorite team or taking the QB on the other team out.
It's hard to remove that bias. Could any of you take Brady out in the Superbowl if that were your charge and you saw him hit his head on the ground? Would you have to think longer about taking Russell Wilson out? The spotters are only human.
(Wilson is probably a bad example since the magic water he drinks prevents him from getting concussions, but you get the idea).