By Dantzler Smith
The NFL’s replacement referees taught NFL fans what the fans of college football already knew. While Steve Young and other NFL commentators, in exasperated tones, expanded their vocabulary to encompass economic principles like ‘inelastic demand’, college football fans should’ve shrugged in indifference to the near tantrums of the talking heads.
Fans of college sports should’ve done this not because the situation wasn’t damaging the integrity of the game or wasn’t against the best interest of the players, because it certainly was those things. No, college football fans shouldn’t have gotten riled up about the NFL referee issue because they know all there is to know about athletic avarice and the way money moves a sport from something sound and mostly unspoiled to something more marketable but less meaningful.
