I love what college football is doing. When a play is under review, they’re letting fans listen in on the conversation between the official and the headquarters. I love it because it’s bringing some integrity to the game.
Fast forward to the NFL. We’re still not able to listen in to that conversation. They know that the majority of the fans think they try to manipulate the outcome. Why wouldn’t they want to do what college football is doing in terms of letting us in on the instant replay or is it obvious they don’t care that everyone knows about the manipulation?
Fans certainly don’t want to think about it, but since the legalization / wide spread of gambling.. there has been a big increase in penalty calls on 3rd and 4th downs and in the redzone. More penalties that are spot fouls or automatic first downs. And holding calls on offenses with the lead.. all of these things point towards referees trying to determine outcomes. You combine that with the accountability issues, the non full time refs.. the league doing everything to expand and make more money, and the equal competition thing seeming like an afterthought.. Its happening. And in our current society we are so blind to obvious corruption that its being done right in the open.
1- The NFL is rigged and the refs are stepping in
2- The NFL has told refs to call the game consistently no matter the down or distance and hence the change
When I first saw this stats I immediately thought of negative reasons. But it could very well be the League saying no more swallowing the whistle.
It’s their chatbot front end hooked to their AI algo back end man….it ain’t even a real person.
“Zebra stripe carbon based unit instructed to level the vig by flagging Lions corner for PI. Nod head if you understand and will comply. You are being watched.”
Why the NFL does not hire full time refs is just crazy
NFL = $300B business
full time refs = 16games x 7 refs per game = 102 refs x $200K/yr per ref = $22.4M
That is 0.008% of their business worth
Think about that for a second, so what is the reasoning behind not hiring full time refs? Because it sure as hell isn’t money
Hell you could pay them $300K/year and not even flinch
I almost want to see a quick video review of each play. I would change the way the game is done, and the hurry up offense would be different. But with the amount of money that is on the line with the gambling, there should be relevant review.
It was a sponsored review. So like 20% of the screen was a banner ad like you see on websites on the bottom of a page.
But they had a camera in the “league office”. A control room with the head official, Blandeno. Mic’d up. Showing what hes looking at. What he’s pointing out. And it takes like 20 seconds.
i would rather have that then what they do currently. Where we have no idea what thr NFL is doing. And you Have blandeno come in an give his opinion just to be wrong half the time
Your point is straight on they should absolutely have full-time refs.Period.
Nitpick Alert- You would derive their salary not from the Business Enterprise Value but from the Annual Revenue. Even then, you could double your proposed salary and they wouldn’t feel it one little bit if those salaries were paid by the teams as a non cap payroll line item or some kind of hold back to the league similar to a franchise fee.
I absolutely hated paying my franchise fee hold back, but then I realized what I was getting for it and I was pretty happy it was only what it was. The owners should look at it the same way
Are all mostly considered seasonal/ part time even though they have an average salary + benefits of $385,000 But are only contracted to work ~450hrs for the season (<20 per week)
Lets just say they are fully contracted to work from 3rd Monday in july (training camp) through 3rd Monday in February (super bowl) 30 weeks. Full time employment. Say they bump up the average pay and benefits to $750k+
Thats~ $120m. Or roughly 1/2% of the league revenue.
So players get 50% of league revenue for pay and benefits.
Referees get 1/2% (or 1% of the owners share and thats the issue)
Yea I was using the business value to show how much the NFL is worth vs the annual income of ~$14B
But yea, a drop in the bucket to the NFL and Owners to get full time refs
I think you are a little high on the $750K+ loaded, company I ran was around 130% of the employee salary for our cost each year (we called that loaded cost), that included health, taxes, 401k, basically everything.
So a 100K employee hit my books at $130K.
Say they pay the refs 300K/yr, that is $390K all in for each ref, so $62.5M.
No reason they shouldn’t be doing this
