This is the NFL referee’s signal for Illegal touching and/or a thirty-second time out. Well there was certainly an illegal touching involved in Jesus’ arrest and later crucifixion (illegal in the sense that He was innocent as charged). And the thirty second referee timeout could easily be compared to the three days Jesus was dead and buried. But the most significant importance attributed to this shoulder pointing gesture is that Jesus shouldered the sins of the world through His death.

The ref’s uniform is just arbitrarily used as a point of reference. No reference to guilt meant. Yes, Jesus’ head is a likeness borrowed from Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio.