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I am a professional with relatively high yearly earnings. I make 20 times more at my profession each year than I do officiating HS and college baseball and football. But on any given day, I'd rather be officiating a game than working at my profession. While I enjoy baseball, football is my passion and I find the rules much more difficult and the mechanics more demanding. Knowing that football officiating is a second career is an incentive to improve and advance. I hope that aspect never changes. In my opinion, the officials in professional and college football are just as good as their counterparts in professional and college baseball, even though officiating is not their main careers.
As for the missed PI call in Giants-Niners game, we all know how difficult it is to officiate a broken play. The deep officials had to bust down to the goal line to cover the receivers, and the line officials had neutral-zone responsibilities, then had to bust downfield when the ball crossed the neutral zone. It's not hard to see how no one got a good look at the defender's take-down. The mechanics changes the front office made the next day should avoid future like no-calls. The entire crew likely got dinged out of the other playoff games, and their entire season is tainted. While football officiating is not a full-time avocation, it certainly is a demanding one!
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