NEW YORK — The NFL Referees Union filed a formal proposal Wednesday requesting authority to throw penalty flags on plays from previous games, including games from as far back as three seasons ago.

"Sometimes I'll be home on a Tuesday watching tape from a 2022 Jaguars game and I'll see a clear holding on a third-and-seven that we just completely blew," said union representative Bill Vinovich, standing behind a podium that was inexplicably wet. "I deserve to be able to act on that."

Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a statement through a spokesperson. "The league is committed to getting calls right regardless of when they happened," the statement read, in a font that three typographers confirmed was Papyrus.

The union has identified 1,400 missed calls from the 2025 season alone. Vinovich described 600 of them as "personal."