Officiating is and will always be a concern as long as there is the human element that is forced to make a “split-second” decision on a play that everyone questions.

Leagues are doing their best to sort this out, but regardless of whom you ask everyone will see the call different as was the case last night at the Vancouver Giants game against Everett.

The call was made and not withstanding a review of the call, it was a decision made by the officials on the ice at the time of the infraction.

Pro leagues have more on the line than just a right or wrong situation, but rather at the pro level its more like a dollar and sense situation, where one wrong call could eliminate a team from the playoffs, which becomes more of a business deal.

Now we are hearing of more concern in the NFL regarding the throwing of flags where through week 15, teams were (on average) having 8.09 flags thrown per game.

Its probably due to the question of competence regarding the quality of officials hired by the league, to which the officials might take exception.

Replays can work, but in the case of the Vikings vs. Cowboy’s game Thornton wasn’t flagged for his hit on QB Sam Bradford’s head, nor was it reviewed.

Even the hit or takedown by Richard Sherman on Julio Jones at the end of the Seahawks/Falcons game.

The discussion the officials are under not to mention the scrutiny when it’s at an all-time high has many questioning if the NFL actually care, cause I know the officials care!

The NFL’s Senior V-P of Officiating Dean Blandino mentioned recently that the league understands the concern from everyone and are working on it to improve what they have and are putting on the field.

The major concern that everyone seems to understand is that the league eventually must hire full time officials to work the games, like other leagues have done, rather than have a part-time referee work the game.

This alone seems simple, but when will it ever happen?