Greed, one of the seven deadly sins, might eventually bring down the multi-billion dollar industry that is the NFL.
The NFL's general attitude, concerning not only officials, but fans and also the former players who built the game into what it has become today, can best be described by the age-old quote: "Let them eat cake."
Roger Goodell, meet Marie Antoinette.
We are talking about the most successful sports league in history, recruiting officials from the bush leagues to regulate games involving some of the most gifted athletes in the world. The results, including Monday night's, are predictable.
It's almost like if the President of the United States, with war at hand, called an emergency meeting of his cabinet and then decided, instead, to substitute the Holmes County Board of Supervisors.
The officials' controversy will not in itself bring the league down, but the general attitude might.
Here's what is worst: The league continues to turn its back on veteran players, who made pennies in the league's infancy, and suffered injuries that have essentially ruined their lives.
Those ex-players are in the process of joining together in a class action suit that could cost the league dearly. And, frankly, I'm pulling for the ex-players, many of whom are in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and have been forgotten by the league they helped to build.
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