His job is basically to allow the referees to be so bad it generates outrage clicks and he gets a show out of it, but not so bad that it leads to change and negatively affects him and his mates. Luckily for him, he has a lot of wriggle room since fans are all so tribal and every time there’s a ridiculous decision, there’s always enough fans happy enough that the team they dislike got screwed that they’ll be happy to support the current setup. Until the next week where their team are screwed over and their rivals are too busy gloating.