Normally, Arizona Cardinals football doesn’t get a rise out of me. (Or anyone, for that matter.) But check out this story on Cardinals receiver David Boston. His dad’s a referee in the NFL. You’d think it wouldn’t be hard to avoid dad being a ref in son’s games — but evidently the league has no problem with it. “He finally officiated one of my games last year,” David says in the article.

Why in the world is that allowed? There was controversy when the elder Boston ref’d a game that just involved a division rival of the Cardinals; doesn’t the appearance of impropriety kick in somewhere? It’s not as if there aren’t dozens of other games to work every Sunday. (I pledge to keep further sports-related blogging to a minimum for a while, don’t worry.)

20 December 2001

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