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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1073697" data-attributes="member: 17987">The league could really stand to benefit from some significant refereeing reforms but IMHO as it stands referees are represented by and protected by a (relatively speaking) very powerful union that has basically nixed any meaningful change attempts. As it stands the NFL is the only major North American sports league without full-time officials. The league has tried to work some in full-time (and admittedly it did not seem to have much of an impact on ref performance in that time, but one could question if the sample size was meaningful or not), but otherwise the NFLRA has pretty consistently pushed back on anything like full-time refereeing, merit-based performance evaluations, any kind of repercussions for poor performances, they don't have to ever answer to press/media, push back against implementing more technology/tools, etc... I'm sure there is more to it than that (and on both sides) but that's what immediately springs to mind</blockquote>

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