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Currently, the National Football League is the only major professional sport organization that doesn’t pay its officials a salary. Officials are part-time employees with regular nine-to-five jobs during the week. However, with professional football being as popular as it is, it is time for the officials to become full-time employees...
Additionally, the nature of the sport requires an official to keep up with the pace of the game. The NFL is a showcase of some of the best athletes in the United States, and a referee must remain in top physical condition to keep up with them. It is impossible to measure how many missed calls were the result of officials who were unable to keep up with the players. However, officials would certainly be better able to stay on top of their exercise if officiating were their full-time job rather than having to sit behind a desk...
...free time looking up videos of new techniques, videos of the best athletes. He can tell you who the best athletes in high school, college, and the pros are...[and] he’s always on blogs and message boards looking up what’s new in the sport...
Brady began to think about possibly being recruited to play the sport in college, and for the academically-minded athlete, the Ivy League made sense...
...miss it,” he admits. “Games were so much fun. I miss hitting people and getting hit. I still watch tons of football, eat it up. I love the sport...