Current rules embrace “sky judge” concept, to an extent

[HotOffTheWire]

Thursday night’s game between the 49ers and Titans included, in the first half, a facemask penalty that clearly did not involve any contact with the facemask. As noted on Twitter at the time, this is precisely the kind of on-field mistake that a full-blown sky judge (or booth umpire, or whatever title would be used) [more]

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