In a lifetime of writing about football, I have found one truth and it this: It is humanly impossible to fairly officiate a professional football game. Impossible. There are too many players. They are moving much too fast. They are in constant, violent combat. The rules are way too subjective. Officiating an NFL game is a bit like playing the word game “Absurdle,” where the AI repeatedly changes the word in question in order to elude your guesses.
That Super Bowl Was, Officially, One for the…
In a lifetime of writing about football, I have found one truth and it this: It is humanly impossible to fairly officiate a professional football game. Impossible. There are too many players. They are moving much too fast. They are in constant, violent combat. The rules are way too subjective. Officiating an NFL game is a bit like playing the word game “Absurdle,” where the AI repeatedly changes the word in question in order to elude your guesses.
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