We are being reminded on Every Given Sunday, and most recently on Any Given Monday night, that someone needs to throw the flag on officiating in the NFL before the public trust is destroyed.

No one, least of all the zebras, seems to know what pass interference is anymore, and we watched the Lions get robbed in Green Bay because the men in stripes twice called hands to the face penalties against DE Trey Flowers when a national television audience could see, with or without replay, how blatantly wrong they were. And there were other calls that screwed the Lions.

To err is human, but never have NFL officials appeared this human.

Advances in technology over the years have upped the urgency to get the calls right, yet coach’s pass interference challenges are ignored even when the call begs to be overturned. Clear and obvious visual evidence has apparently not been clear and obvious to the officials. Or to senior VP of officiating Al Riveron, who from his New York command center persists in subscribing to the nothing-to-see-here theory.

The infamous 2012 Fail Mary game (Packers-Seahawks, Russell Wilson to Golden Tate), officiated by replacement refs, led to a triumphant return by the regulars that comforted the general public and restored faith in the game.

Except now we have the possibility of the Lions missing the playoffs because of a game that was stolen from them nine months after the Saints had a Super Bowl berth taken from them by an egregious pass interference that was missed.

As more states legalize betting, the NFL is heading straight toward a burgeoning integrity problem.

And the NFL’s move toward full-time officials ended in the summer when the league scrapped it as part of ongoing labor discussions with the NFL Referees Association.

Blown calls are bad enough. It is also as if the zebras have forgotten that they are not the reason why football fans and viewers watch the games. The rash of seemingly arbitrary calls has too often turned the game into flag football. Delay of game, as it were.

FOX Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira has proposed a sky judge.

“Not a replay official,” he told me in the wake of the Nikell Robey-Coleman fiasco in the NFC Championship game, “an eighth official, part of the crew, travels with the crew … and give him the ability to be on site in an enclosed booth with a technician, to look at the play on television in real time and correct obvious mistakes that are big plays and involve player safety and pass interference, and be able to correct some of this stuff. … He’s able to, in 15 seconds’ time, correct a mistake. I think that’s what needs to be done, quite frankly, to win back the confidence to a degree. It’ll look a little strange, but it won’t happen more than probably two or three times a game. It’s kind of a fail-safe to me.”

Full-time officials could help, but the speed of the game will confound them as well from time to time.

The sky judge is a no-brainer.

Tony Dungy tweeted: “I’m not saying officials cost Lions the game. I’m saying three wrong calls and one obvious missed call in one half is not acceptable. Doesn’t matter who wins the game.”

Tony Dorsett tweeted: “Refs are playing too big a part in the fate of games, man.”

Jack Del Rio cited four blown calls in Lions-Packers and tweeted: “Refs can’t guess and can’t get these wrong. Lions would’ve won by 2 scores.”

You will be reading plenty of additional tweets.

The fall owners meeting is in progress. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Gentlemen, it’s broke.