The Palin-ization of the NFL

From a Times story noting that the NFL has recently fined a number of players for illegal hits that didn't actually draw in-game penalties:

"Do the after-the-fact fines and suspensions undermine the officials if a penalty was not called? The N.F.L. said that those sanctions did not.

'You can’t humanly catch all the things that might happen, particularly if it’s away from the play,' Ray Anderson, the N.F.L.’s executive vice president for football operations, said. 'It’s no rap on the officials that they might not catch a helmet-to-helmet hit at full speed on the other side of the field.'”

Except that it totally is a rap on the officials. Aren't there like 7 of them, to watch 22 players? Of whom 6 (the offensive line plus the quarterback) literally never get moving fast enough to commit a fine-worthy helmet-to-helmet hit? And aren't such hits hands-down the most noticeable thing that happens on a football field?

Most charitable interpretation: Anderson was slightly misquoted, and was in fact bemoaning the lack of any popularized rap composition addressing the NFL's blatantly self-indicting practice of fining players for doing things that the officials totally missed.