For those of you who say the refs should be glad to have a “part-time job” where they make six figures where some don’t make that full-time is ridiculous. Perhaps somewhere along the line 15+ years ago, you should have made the decision to take a 100 question true/false test in your local area to start out with pop warner ball. With hard work and dedication, perhaps you could’ve been lucky to move into HS ball. With more hard work and sacrifice, you might have been lucky to move into small college. With even harder work at honing this skill, you might be lucky to move to D1 and if you really get lucky beyond that, you might have a shot to crack into the NFL. Just so everyone is aware, there are 121 NFL officials, about 500 D1 officials, and several thousand in D2/3. It is a small community and only so much room at the top. Sure, regular refs are bashed during the season, but they are correct in interpretation and judment more than 96% of the time! I’ll take that anytime over this crap we are being force fed with these scabs. Most of these guys are doing it for their “15 minutes of fame” perhaps because they felt they were slighted or the victim of “politics” somewhere down the line. Well, now that these losers have their turn at bat, they see just how hard the rules and enforcements can be. At least D1 guys have a high level of experience although not comparable to the NFL, but most guys at these levels are taught, trained and supervised by current or former NFL officials (Big Ten, MAC, Big East, Big 12, Pac 12, CUSA).

For all of you cracking on Florio for the ‘every turnover is now reviewed’, reread the article. He says in parenthesis that exact thing then says……GOOD THING I AM NOT A REPLACEMENT OFFICIAL! And whether he is on the NFLRAs side or not, these guys are bad! Missed calls, wrong calls, total lack of rules knowledge for some. And we bash the regular guys too, so they don’t get a free ride.”

Way to get in late. It wasn’t until after we started complaining that the parenthesis with UPDATE showed up.

Oh really? Like when Tony Romo had to spot the ball HIMSELF because the refs didn’t do it? I’ve NEVER seen that before.

You, my friend, would be correct.

Another thing most observers have not mentioned are the mechanics the replacements are using. It’s like watching a high school game…slow, fat, old officials consistently out of position to make the correct call (mostly). Proper use of officiating mechanics is what gets most NFL officials where they are. Watch the LOS officials as they look at the ground near the sideline with their OB spot. A seasoned official doesn’t do that b/c he knows (YES HE) that that spot won’t move if he looks away from it.

NFL: pay the guys and let’s move on….

I understand refs missing judgment calls, but they have to at least know the rules.

It’s about guys with experience sitting on the sidelines while clowns make a mockery of the game.

Initially, those of us in my section thought it was a pass interference penalty. Then when they announced the personal foul call (no details), everyone thought it came after the pick.

Regardless of what happened on this play, the NFL has to get the real refs back. Once someone gets unnecessarily injured it will be too late.

Exsqueese me. The replay officials in the booth are not replacements, and they confirmed the call.

They confirmed the interception, not the penalty itself, or the fact that the infraction came before the interception.

The CowBoy coaches are just as Clueless as the replacement Zebras. None of them put up any kind of argument after the bad call was made……..

Oh right, because arguing with the officials gets the play reversed.

Not to far fetched. There has to be a reason for this continued bias against the NFL who has made you what you are.
Or could you be trying hard to regain balance after most see you as selling out to NBC? So you are trying to act like you can take on the league without interference from Big Brother?

However this site pushes pro union agendas regularly. While this seems like a terrible call I’d be interested if this site and every fan who’s bashing the replacement refs will look at the regulars just as hardly when they come back.

Contrary to popular belief the regular refs mess up a ton as well. Bill Leavy gave the Steelers SB XL on a couple of horrendous calls. People complain about the replacement refs potentially blowing regular season games on bad calls but we’ve already seen a supposed top notch official blow the biggest game in the world. If you need any more proof you won’t have to look very far.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/06/four-years-later-bill-leavy-apologizes-to-seahawks/

Of course, your server might run out of space if you do that.