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The main reason I reject this is because it is the most potentially fatal thing the NFL could do to it's brand, not because they are above it. It only takes one whistle-blower, one ref "coming clean" and it would be absolutely disastrous. There would be an almost 100% chance of this happening. The NFL knows this.
What I think does happen is that referees, in all sports, tend to favor star players. In baseball you hear it with calling balls and strikes and who "gets the calls". It's been that way since forever. In NFL, those stars tend to be the MVP-caliber quarterbacks.
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