In last night’s Super Bowl, the officiating crew made two critical strategic decisions that improved the game immensely. First, they didn’t call pass interference at all. One obvious defensive holding aside, both teams were allowed to mug opposing receivers all game and it made the game so much better.
Did anybody think effectively erasing this rule hurt offensive production in a game with almost 1200 yards of offense?
The second came in refusing to allow replay to completely overrule reality. If you see someone catch a ball, they probably caught the ball, and if you slow everything down to a frame per half second, nothing looks secure. Chris Collingsworth would look at The Horse In Motion and say, “well, you know, in real-time it looked like the horse was moving, but you can see right… here, right here, the horse isn’t making contact with the ground and horses just can’t move like that, Al. So this horse never moved.”
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This is all, somehow, entirely relevant to our latest Thinking Like A Lawyer podcast, where we talk about the incentives to concuss in the NFL and why the league’s insistence on obsessing over the meaning of “catch” in super slo mo will supercharge the need to “separate the man from the ball” mentality of brutal hits.
Which, somehow, is entirely relevant to law school debt.
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