It might be the funniest thing ever written in a statement by a Southeastern Conference commissioner.

In a Monday release that detailed who should and should not have been ejected after last Thursday’s Egg Bowl fight between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey called for peace talks between the school’s athletic directors as a solution to defuse the emotions.

Sankey’s statement:

“It remains disappointing to have seen the unnecessary actions during and after the Mississippi State at Ole Miss game on Thursday night. These actions are unacceptable and my concern relates to the bigger issue of the repeated incidents before, during and after games between these football programs. These incidents have become too common in this series. I will require both athletics directors to meet with me at the SEC Office in the off-season to review past issues and develop a plan for the purpose of creating a healthier environment for this annual game.”

Yo Greg, they had a plan back in 1926.

It was devised after a postgame fight between fans from Ole Miss and Mississippi State when Rebels’ rooters stormed the field in Starkville to tear down the goalposts following a 7-6 win.

School student bodies decided fans hitting each other with cane folding chairs wasn’t a good look, so they came up with the idea for the following season to award a trophy to winner of the game.

Thus, the birth of the Battle of the Golden Egg.

And now, after 93 years of a Hatfields vs. McCoys feud that goes deeper than both schools claiming opposing fans and coaching staffs turn each other in to the NCAA for investigations and probations, Sankey wants a “plan to create healthier environment."

Maybe this could involve joint pregame Bible studies with the teams.

Or having each team’s captains meet, pair off and then say five things they like about each other.

Or defusing the home crowd by taking the game out of Oxford and Starkville and playing the game annually either in one of 13 other U.S. locales named Oxford or in Starkville, Colorado. Or there’s the neutral name site compromise of playing in every city or town named Jackson (Jackson, Tennessee; Jackson, Louisiana; Jackson, Arkansas) or with Jackson as part of its name (Jacksonville, Florida; Jacksonville, Alabama; Jackson Hole, Wyoming).

Sankey needs to concern himself less with things he can’t control and more with things he can.

Like the league’s football officiating.

The problem isn’t just some incredibly awful officiating decisions week in and week out, even with the alleged help of in-stadium and centralized instant replay officials in the league office in Birmingham.

It’s a given that officiating crews are going to blow calls in the course of games that feature anywhere from 120 to sometimes 200 snaps.

It is easy to watch a replay and make an officiating decision.

Try doing it at field level with tremendously big and fast athletes flying around and playing an incredibly violent game. It's a different world.

That said, the real aggravation comes from the cloak of mystery the SEC throws over its recruiting of officials, their training, their weekly grading and their general accountability process.

Does anybody know how many years of experience is needed by an official before he’s hired by the SEC?

Or what exactly goes into the game-by-game grading process of officials?

How many officials does the SEC fire annually at the end of the season? What is the average turnover of hirings and firings?

Or how much officials are paid per game? Insert your "Nick Saban owns the officials" joke here.

What constitutes an officiating crew earning a suspension?

Why doesn’t the league publicly announce such a suspension? The last time the SEC did that was in October 2009 by previous commissioner Mike Slive.

The Big 12 and MAC conferences last announced it had suspended crews in 2016, the ACC did so in 2015 and the Big Sky and Pac 12 admitted screwups in October.

And the SEC?

Crickets. Guess it has been perfect for nine straight seasons.

The SEC’s ad campaign should be revised to “It just means more. . .when you know less about our officiating.”