Football Officiating in 2030

[younggun]

Where do you see the state of football officiating in the year 2030?For NFL, college, and high school? Does technology take a bigger role in all of them? Will there be even more of a struggle to recruit new officials? and what ever questions you think there might be..... Discuss....

[maven]

Football is banned in 2022 as too dangerous. Blame the lawyers.

[Tredstone]

I am afraid Maven might be right.

[Welpe]

Football is banned in 2022 as too dangerous. Blame the lawyers.

Soccer will be the premier national sport and baseball will be a game played by a die hard few with low turn out and bad TV ratings.

Hey it could happen.

[maven]

Soccer will be the premier national sport and baseball will be a game played by a die hard few with low turn out and bad TV ratings.

Hey it could happen.

And soccre will evolve to 7-official crews.

[Welpe]

There will be no officials, just goal line technology and robots running the lines.

[bama_stripes]

Rugby will be the premier national sport and football will be a game played by a die hard few with low turn out and bad TV ratings.

Hey it could happen.

FIFY.

[maven]

MMA will be the premier national sport and NASCAR will be a game played by a die hard few with low turn out and bad TV ratings.

Hey it could happen.

FIFY.

[clearwall]

I plan to be working the Super Bowl that year...

[Wettstein]

2025 American football banned
2030 - Soccer is premier sport
2030, soccer game goes awry, officials can't stop iot.  One team is angry other team is using hands and therefore picks up the ball and charges towards opponents goal.  Opponenets try to stop ball carrier and bring him to ground.  He carries 8 defenders into goal.  Fans go wild.  Televisions ratings skyrocket.
2031 - Soccer adopts rules that you can pick up ball and charge it into opponenets goal.  Other team is allowed to grab you and pull hit, or knock you to the ground.
2035 - Soccer adopts use of helmets, shoulder pads, and various other padding to reduce number of injuries.

[Welpe]

We already have Rugby.

[JasonTX]

2025 American football banned
2030 - Soccer is premier sport
2030, soccer game goes awry, officials can't stop iot.  One team is angry other team is using hands and therefore picks up the ball and charges towards opponents goal.  Opponenets try to stop ball carrier and bring him to ground.  He carries 8 defenders into goal.  Fans go wild.  Televisions ratings skyrocket.
2031 - Soccer adopts rules that you can pick up ball and charge it into opponenets goal.  Other team is allowed to grab you and pull hit, or knock you to the ground.
2035 - Soccer adopts use of helmets, shoulder pads, and various other padding to reduce number of injuries.

2040 - Soccer adopts the forward pass.
2042 - Soccer changes the shape of the ball to a prolate spheroid.