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I've been watching football for about 30 years now and every year I hear the same thing: fans whining about the officiating. It (the officiating) hasnt really gotten any better or worse, from what I can see. It boils down to two things, really:
1. NFL officials ARE GOING TO miss things. In order to catch every infraction that occurs, they would have to double the number of officials working each game. Problem with that (aside from the fact that the NFL aint gonna do it) is that every other play would draw a flag. There is, for example, holding on damned near every play in every game. It is the NFL officials job to call only the most blatant, which leads me to point #2.
2. Judgement calls. A significant portion of all penalty calls are judgement calls by the official. Any time you have judgement calls, you are going to have controversies, as fans of one team will see it differently from fans of the other. Its as simple as that.
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