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Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor argues a call with referee Ronald Torbert during during the second half of the NFL AFC Championship playoff football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023 in Kansas City, Mo. Editor's note: This column originally appeared in Read & Read, Yahoo Sports daily newsletter.Well, the Super Bowl is set, but all anyone seems to be talking about is the officiating from championship weekend.
Why? Why would the NFL prefer the Chiefs over the Bengals? If you think it’s because of better ratings, well, the Super Bowl draws an audience no matter who’s in it. Kansas City’s last appearance drew 100 million viewers. Last year’s Super Bowl, which included the Bengals, drew 99 million.
You think sportsbooks, which are finally opening in states across the country, are going to risk their legalized future because they might take a bath on Cincinnati winning? That would be playing a hellaciously stupid short game.I agree. The NFL can afford it. But, how is making officials full-time going to make said officials better? Maybe it attracts a higher-caliber talent pool, but the game is still going to be the game and the game of football is a difficult one to officiate.
It’s not that the officials are consistently bad, it’s that perfection is impossible. Hell, it’s hard to even be consistently good, which, for the most part, refs are. After all, how many times are referees credited with getting a call right?. The do-over was actually the correct call. The lineman noticed a mistake by the referee, who inadvertently announced the clock would wind on his signal. It shouldn't have, the lineman noticed it and ran in to correct it.
Sure, this is a simplistic way of looking at it, but I don't think it's any more complicated than that. Mistakes are going to happen when doing something that’s very, very difficult to do. You just hope they don’t happen in a tie game with eight seconds to go in the AFC championship.
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