The Art of Officiating in the NFL

The NFL needs to devote more time and more resources to creating the impression they're doing everything possible to get it right. Officiating is a collection of a thousand little things that were messed up in that one from the replay official up top, not calling into Ron Torberg's ear. Nobody said to Ron Torbert, oh, wait, wait, no, the clock should not start on your signal, just the play clock. That was mistake number two in the chain of events. The officials need to be more dialed in. And by the way, you know that there's an alternate referee at this game. But the alternate referee has the ability to talk to him. So like,