also in sports, you have a league (multi-billion dollar advertising business) and league-controlled referees who are inconsistent and may or may not have a narr

also in sports, you have a league (multi-billion dollar advertising business) and league-controlled referees who are inconsistent and may or may not have a narrative they are trying to push (aka, so-and-so team will do better advertising/TV ratings if they make it deeper into the playoffs) how do you account for inconsistent/bad calls/missed calls when there is zero accountability? you can only review some things sometimes, and supposedly "new york" is watching in a booth to tell the refs "bad call/good call", yet announcers + players + coaches all disagree with refs on calls all the time that 100% affect the outcome of the game i personally don't think the NFL + NBA is to be trusted. i don't want to sound like some crackpot conspiracy theorist but i feel like there's enough evidence that... it's not a serious product. it's entertainment first and foremost. i don't know what corporate boardroom focus group research was done to identify the fact that viewers respond well to something they hate (bad calls), but... boy, they sure are not trying to use technology to remove them from the game