Today’s Argument: The National Football League (NFL) really doesn’t understand the concept of timing.

Let’s face an ugly reality. For as long as the NFL has been tripping over itself pandering to the “social justice” crowd, it still hasn’t learned how not to make themselves look like idiots in the process. But to be fair, more often then not, the league gets away with it because circumstance breaks in their favor. Not many will notice the latest example…as perfect as it is.

This past Thursday, the NFL made history by having a game featuring it’s first all-black officiating crew…including women as the replay officials and as a member of the on-field crew. Now, we all know there are people who celebrate that sort of thing; obviously the NFL is amongst that set. But the NFL ran the risk of having an event they planned to be yet another example of how “progressive” they are blow up in their face…again.

Luckily for the NFL, the Las Vegas Raiders slaughtered the Los Angeles Chargers 63-21. The fact this game was realistically over in the 2nd quarter meant there was no reason to pay any attention to the game officials.

Normally, that’s a victory. The goal for any football league is the fans should never notice the officials. When they do, it only means the officials A) threw a ton of yellow flags, B) blew a crucial call, or C) all of the above. In this case, that was a blessing for Kommissar Goodell and the league he’s making unwatchable.

Think about it. This season has seen the criticism of NFL officiating rise above it’s usual deafening cacophony. To be fair, I don’t think all the blame lies strictly with the striped shirts. Any football fan will tell you that recent rules changes in the NFL are needlessly complex, and therefore increasingly difficult to call. As I’m writing this,* we all know the fiasco the NFL made of what a catch is, but now they can’t figure out something a simple as a straight fucking line.

Just for fun, imagine if something like that Kadarious Toney offsides call happened in Thursday night’s game. Not only would there be the usual toilet-overflow of “hot takes” from the top of the sports media to the depths of the sewer that is social media, but you know damn good and well that somebody would grab the low-hanging plumbing-depth fruit concerning the “affirmative action” officiating crew.

I’m not here to get into the polemics of that issue. But don’t even try to tell me that in today’s politically-charged atmosphere, especially when pushed by the prevailing wind of Kommissar Goodell’s fumble-fuckery of nearly every race-based issue punted anywhere near him, all of our screens wouldn’t be suffering a sewage eruption from the bursting pipes of both sides.

Again, this isn’t about sides…it’s about the total dipshitery of Roger Goodell how his desire to be seen as “color-blind” risked a serious shit-storm because of his complete tone-deafness.

Doubt that?

Change my mind.

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*-Seriously, as I’m writing this that terrible non-call happened in the overtime of the Bengals-Vikings game which was clearly defensive pass interference against Minnesota.

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