On Sunday during the NFC Championship game, football fans were stunned to find out the NFL Rulebook allows the league’s referees — who are under plenty of scrutiny at almost all times — to simply, at their discretion, award a score to a team on the field.
Say whaaaaaa? Yeah, it’s true. The officials have an immense amount of leeway in the event a player or even non-player commits a palpably unfair act on the field of play.
So much so that many people didn’t know the rule or what exactly the refs were allowed to do. And I don’t just mean fans — many media members were unaware of the rule, current players watching didn’t know and even players in the game, including longtime superstar linebacker Bobby Wagner, were stunned to find out just what the rule allows the officials to do on the field during the game.