In case you haven’t figured it out yet, this was never about controlling a game. This was never about gambling, even though the conspiracies regarding the NFL utilizing its officiating crew as a tool to fix games and skew results in order to protect some online bookmaker are wonderfully entertaining.
After Thursday night’s Baltimore Ravens–Cincinnati Bengals tilt, a game that ended on a failed two-point conversion attempt by the Bengals in which the quarterback was pawed in the facemask by a defensive lineman and a tight end was being dragged down by a pair of defenders like a 1990s NBA center, it became fairly clear that the officiating crisis we’ve been asking the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about for years now is simply a beautiful glitch.
