And the mob boss decides to try to defend the officiating...

Dean Blandino, the mafioso overseer of NFL officiating, actually tried to the defend the NFL officials by saying that they only made mistakes on an average of 4.3 plays out of an average game of 160 plays.

That's almost 3%.

So, let's consider:

In a sport that this country swears absolute fealty to:

• On average, 3% of all scores are erroneous.
• 3% of all penalties, on average, same.
• And, on an average, this would mean that, out of a 256 game NFL season, 7-8 games a year would be an acceptable number of games fucked up by the refereeing so badly that the result of the game is changed.

Yeah, Dean.  Twirl the pinky-ring some more.