Comments on: NFL says lockout of officials has begun

By: pftstory

pftstory — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:07:54 +0000

Its not a simple job that anyone can do. But I also d not believe making it a year round job with year round pay is going to make it so they have all this time to “work on their craft.” They really going to spend 40 hours a week during the off season reviewing film and doing drills? Ain’t gonna happen. For those talking pay scale. The number on the check is not the only form of pay. They are going to want pensions (based on that annual number) health insurance, 401K, disability…..
The biggest comment is how the replacements cant be any worse. Well that should be the argument. How about give the refs more money if the league makes it easier to get rid of the ones that stink? The ones that are out of position, or who can’t keep up with a lineman returning a fumble, or the ones wth a history of blown/missed calls.
Sure they have other full time jobs. But if they cannot commit the time to the second job to do it well, they should lose the second job (or not take it in the first place). The first job should not be a crutch to explain why you suck as a ref.
How many people can tell their night job that the reason they suck at it is because of their day job and see the night time boss say “oh OK.?”

By: rayguyreturns

rayguyreturns — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:54:37 +0000

Would love to see these guys walking a picket line. Can you imagine the abuse they would take? It would make the actual game look like a cake walk for them.

By: cowboyscanada

cowboyscanada — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:40:21 +0000

Can the NFL get any more out of control?

Its getting pretty sick hearing the garbage that is coming out of this league. Ppl just want to watch football and not be constantly picking sides between lawyers for the NFL, defendants, etc etc etc… Get your S**t together NFL!!

By: foosballisthedevil

foosballisthedevil — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:09:43 +0000

Mike Pereira

By: bearsstillsuck

bearsstillsuck — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:37:04 +0000

A season with scab officials and scab players would of been chaos and amazing to watch.

By: pgh75

pgh75 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:15:33 +0000

I believe the only lawyer that is an official is Holchuli.

By: thrstr

thrstr — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:14:59 +0000

it’s not like there a thirty cameras running for every game to make sure everything is called correctly, – oh wait . . .

By: northeastkiller

northeastkiller — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:39:06 +0000

All this free time suddenly on his hands, Hochuli’s going to have to run around giving random citizens tickets to the gun show.

By: bucfandango

bucfandango — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:24:28 +0000

Do you really need officials at all? How about some old fashioned Kill the man with the Ball?

By: bigzant82

bigzant82 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:19:56 +0000

we all know what this mean wirth replacement ref EXPECT ALOT BAD CALLS
those this mean the Jets or Browns have a shot at the Super Bowl?

By: b3nz0z

b3nz0z — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:18:55 +0000

i’m no business guru, but isn’t it a really bad sign for a company to have separate labor disputes culminating in lockouts in consecutive years?

By: jonasgrumbyoftx

jonasgrumbyoftx — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:11:53 +0000

Don’t worry. NFL Management will kill the NFL by the end of the decade … after they soak as much money out of it as they can.

By: borisbulldog

borisbulldog — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:06:06 +0000

Can any of the replacement refs be any worse then Jeff Triplette?

By: bsizemore68

bsizemore68 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:05:39 +0000

The problem with SCAB replacement is they are a cancer to pro football, they show the NFL for what they really about, rich owners who just want more money, the chief former scab in NO is out for a year, this is what a scab will do, stab you in the back, the players if they weren’t so rich they might set out any game that has scabs in it, scabs are a cancer, they would screw there mother for a scab job. Bill

By: discosucs2005

discosucs2005 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:56:22 +0000

With the first labor dispute, I was kind of like “eh, two sides to every story.” now that we are on labor dispute number 2, I’m starting to see the NFL as the common denominator. It’s really hard to have any sort of patience for this kind of thing when fans and cities are contributing so much money.

And for the people who don’t thing there will be a difference between replacements, I assure you that will not be the case. Would you expect equal quality performance from replacement players? If not don’t expect so from refs. I hate refs too, but I have a feeling if this gets dragged into the season, we’ll all hate refs a lot more.

By: lovefootball4life

lovefootball4life — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:52:06 +0000

“Can you figure out how to call a catch in the end zone properly?”

“…caught the ball, both feet down inside the line, right?”

“Hmmm… you got that right… I don’t think we can really use you, but thanks for coming in. NEXT! Bring the blind guy in here, I have a good feeling about him.”
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That’s funny. It would be nice if we went back to being that simple. Now it is

“…caught the ball, both feet down inside the line, maintained control, ball is not moving, didn’t lose the ball when hit the ground..”

By: schmitty2

schmitty2 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:51:08 +0000

p4hbiz says:Jun 4, 2012 3:23 PM

Cool! Maybe the replacement refs won’t flag my Raiders as much.

The old refs still have a bounty out on us, not cool guy’s.

Maybe you can tell your team to stop committing blatant penalties and being near the league lead in them like they have for the last 3 decades

By: clintonite44

clintonite44 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:49:40 +0000

zoidenflak says:
Jun 4, 2012 3:07 PM
…maybe they’ll find a bunch of guys who can agree on what “holding” is…

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It would be BEST if they could figure out what an actual pass reception looks like! Shouldn’t have to follow a receiver into the tunnel to find out if he’s still holding a ball. That’s really stupid!

By: jakek2

jakek2 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:35:22 +0000

daysend564 says:
Jun 4, 2012 4:15 PM
NFL officials salary range from $27,000-70,000 per year. Not too shabby for 48 hours worth of work a season.
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No wonder the officiating sucks. These guys have to work real jobs to make ends meet. If the NFL paid them a full time salary, they can focus on their craft. By the way, if there are 200 officials (way conservative guess) and they paid each $150,000 (way conservative)….The NFL would be out an overstated maximum of $30,000,000. This is peanuts and this is all that it would take to fix the officiating aspect of a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Keep siding with the owners though.

By: spartan822

spartan822 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:28:05 +0000

daysend564 says: Jun 4, 2012 4:15 PM

NFL officials salary range from $27,000-70,000 per year. Not too shabby for 48 hours worth of work a season.
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48 hours is not even close to the amount of work the refs do. There are many hours of training and testing in order to be an NFL official.

By: meytonpanning

meytonpanning — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:25:10 +0000

Is it wrong that Hochuli reminds me of Robin Williams?

By: spartan822

spartan822 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:24:25 +0000

This is going to get ugly. The refs are already bad. The replacement refs will be even worse.

By: thefiesty1

thefiesty1 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:21:05 +0000

When I was much younger I officiated high school football. It’s not a cakewalk at that level. I can’t imagine how difficult it is at the NFL level. Replacements? Good luck with that. Everyone will be unhappy with ALL the calls.

By: simonwelds

simonwelds — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:20:29 +0000

They need to take the nba refs with them!!

By: daysend564

daysend564 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:15:50 +0000

NFL officials salary range from $27,000-70,000 per year. Not too shabby for 48 hours worth of work a season.

By: patriots123456

patriots123456 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:07:03 +0000

Promote the cheerleaders.

Give them a whistle.

Who cares if they blow a few calls. At least they would be fun to watch.

By: khmer379

khmer379 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:06:43 +0000

Hire ref that dont favor certain team and players sincerely every NFL fans

By: steel9456

steel9456 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:02:39 +0000

The NFL’s greed keeps getting worse. I will not watch Scab Refs just as I would not watch scab players. Now let the “I will do it for half the money” idiots start commenting. You fools could not Ref a youth flag football game.

By: daysend564

daysend564 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:53:34 +0000

If they agree to ditch their normal jobs and not treat this as a week-end hobby for 1/3 of the year, give them more money.

If they hire now, anybody with half a brain would be able to be as familiar with the rules as most of what is out there. Just think if they have a year to familiarize. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about only hearing about how catching the ball isn’t actually a catch. They would be forced to conferences and they would all know what is what (perhaps that’s just a dream).

By: govtminion

govtminion — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:45:08 +0000

“Can you figure out how to call a catch in the end zone properly?”

“…caught the ball, both feet down inside the line, right?”

“Hmmm… you got that right… I don’t think we can really use you, but thanks for coming in. NEXT! Bring the blind guy in here, I have a good feeling about him.”