Vick and Donaghy just hit us with a couple of cherry bombs, and nothing fell.
维克和多纳吉攻击我们的武器只是少数几个樱桃炸弹,什么损失都没有。
The NFL will react with appropriate anger and punitive action to reassure fans and, more important to them, big sponsors.
NFL将采取行动,恰当地表现出愤怒,祭出惩戒利刃,以示球迷,以及对他们来说更重要的——大赞助商。
League administrators of sports officials, NBA and others, will treat their referees more like whipping boys than they do now, which in some leagues is considerable.
And Mano and his group, who coincidentally meet for their annual Summit of Sports Officials starting July 29 in Denver, will put their heads together — all 250 of them spanning many sports — and seek understanding and solutions.
A couple of grief counselors might find work there too.
一群忧心忡忡的法律顾问们也会在那里找到活计。
For a while, every officiating call will be linked to a sports book in Vegas, every close loss on a controversial ruling will be further proof that everything stinks. There will even be those demanding that officiating duties be taken over by technology.
But reality will set in. It will become clear that Donaghy is one official in a sea of others who, remarkably, have stayed clean. Anyway, hollering at machines is no fun.