I've been noticing lately that the officiating in the NFL has been something less than stellar. This isn't a terribly new thing. The players get bigger and faster, and the game speeds up, and it can take a while for the Stripes to catch up - pretty simple formula. What really bugs me tho' is that I don't see any of the blown calls on any of the highlite shows, and I never hear any of the commentators talking about it either. It starts to look a lot like a media blackout.
I'm not saying the games are rigged, but I will say that in the absence of scrutiny, the potential for dastardly behavior will flourish in sports, business, government, religion, whatever.
Connecting those dots with any of these other dots may a bit of a stretch, but it feels like there's a real corollary at work here.
(hat tip = HuffPo)
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