Most people realize that Denver was lucky to beat San Diego yesterday. If not for an inadvertent whistle on a fairly obvious fumble, Denver would not have won.
Which brings us to the subject for today. It's time for the NFL to stop making inadvertent whistles as important as intentional ones. As it reads now, the whistle stops everything, even when the call on the field is proven to be incorrect.
If the NFL expects its officials to be right 100 percent of the time – and sometimes even that's not good enough – then it needs to allow for wrongly timed whistles to be overturned.
1 comment:
How do you UN-blow a whistle? once the whistle blows players stop, most of the time. the makeup of the play is changed and people can get hurt if one player lets up and the other plays through the wayward whistle. It is unfortunate that it happens but us referee's are human and we sometimes make mistakes, its part of the game and players and coaches alike know that. changing the rules so that a player can keep going even after the whistle blows is a recipe for disaster!
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