primetime
Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2005
- Messages
- 13,627
- Reaction score
- 15,375
The problem isn't the officials being full-time or not, it's that there's human error involved and always will be. At a certain point, the officials are part of the rules of the game. There's no way to remove this sort of human error entirely, at least in the foreseeable future, so as long as there is football there will be people complaining about it.
Also, I definitely sympathize with the inadvertent whistle-blower.
"The official was line judge Gary Arthur, and it hasn’t been an easy season for him. In Week 1, Arthur was trampled by a Ravens player on a punt against the Broncos and suffered gruesome injuries: nine broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a partially collapsed lung.
Monday night’s game was Arthur’s second game back, and our source believes Arthur blew the whistle because he became skittish once Brady and the action of the play rolled his way, toward the sideline."
I can understand that.
Also, I definitely sympathize with the inadvertent whistle-blower.
"The official was line judge Gary Arthur, and it hasn’t been an easy season for him. In Week 1, Arthur was trampled by a Ravens player on a punt against the Broncos and suffered gruesome injuries: nine broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and a partially collapsed lung.
Monday night’s game was Arthur’s second game back, and our source believes Arthur blew the whistle because he became skittish once Brady and the action of the play rolled his way, toward the sideline."
I can understand that.