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Making it official.
Darrell Green is retiring after this season, his 20th in the NFL. I have a serious suggestion for a new career: NFL game official.
The league needs more minority officials. It knows it, and so does the union representing the officials. Mike Carey, one of just two black referees, is convinced the NFL can help alleviate this unacceptable situation by luring into officiating players who understand the game and have a love for it.
And there's a bonus involved. These ex-players would bring added credibility to the officiating profession.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is committed to increasing the number of minority officials. There already is a task force studying the problem. Carey is searching for ways to accelerate the process.
"You just don't wake up one day and be a NFL official" Carey says. "You have to recruit them. It will be an uphill battle. We have to go right to seniors in college and say, `When you finish playing, come and referee.'"
Carey's feeling is that when more former players become officials, fans will look upon them, and officiating, differently. If a guy you respect as a player is throwing a flag, you might be less hesitant to immediately think he is wrong. And that could raise the profile of Carey's profession.
Think about it. Who would be a better judge of what really is, and isn't, pass interference than Green? Or who could determine holding better than a veteran lineman such as Bruce Smith?
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