Pro-union hacks crack me up.
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Don’t confuse “pro-union” with “pro-people who are competent at their jobs”.

Instead of just saying, “we are working hard to eliminate the contract obstacles that exist to reach an agreement with the regular NFL officials who are an important part of great game, but these things take time…,” we get the bluster trying to convince the ticket-buying consumers that 1,400+ years of NFL referee experience can be adequately replaced with high school and low-level college officials….

And the league wonders why the football fans confidence in Mr. Goodell’s truthfulness on Bounty scandals, salary cap shenanagins, etc…erodes with each passing day….

The commissioner and those doing his bidding instinctively tweak the truth, when the truth alone would be good enough!

Double talk.

The first was a missed pass interference call on the Steelers…dude straight out pushed a receiver down from behind.

Shortly thereafter, there was a clear block to the back on a punt…the ref was right in front of the play and did nothing.

The third was on the overturned Colts touchdown. The evidence was definitely not indisputable. It was called a TD and should have remained one.

Fourth… on the very next play, Luck slid into the end zone for a TD. The problem is that rule states that the play ends at the START of the slide, meaning the ball didn’t cross the plane. So the first TD should have counted, but the second should not have.

And then there is the best/worst one: On the overturned Colts TD, the ref said “the knee touched down at the 1 yard line,” then proceeded to place the ball on the 1. The problem? The ball was no more than 1 inch from the end zone when the knee went down.

Absolutely pathetic.

It is their inability to understand basic elements of the game- spotting the ball, stopping and starting the clock, knowing the half or game cannot end on an accepted defensive penalty, not knowing about the 10 second run off on an accepted offensive penalty inside of two minutes, etc. etc. etc. etc.

These things change the flow and outcome of games as much as blown penalty calls. The difference is that while judgement calls will always happen, there is no excuse for someone walking on the field to referee an NFL not even knowing the rules.

The call on the goal line was terrible… I don’t see how they reversed the call, but in the end it was another wrong call that let them in… that wrong call was made by the replay officials which ARE NOT REPLACEMENTS! In this case I guess 2 wrongs do in fact make a right.

But seriously, your go-to guy on analysis of this is Mike Pereira? That’s the equivalent of going to Roger Goodell for analysis of bounty gate.

Not exactly a neutral party, know what I mean?

The Niners had the ball with under 30 seconds to play, the Ravens committed a penalty, and then the Refs wound the clock and time expired.

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This may have been ok. I don’t know the NFL rule but in college (and it is also different in HS), the clock can expire AFTER a penalty, but not during the down. Clock status also depends on what happened during the play where the penalty was incurred. So if the penalty was during a play with an incomplete pass, the clock would start on the snap. If the penalty was during a run play that ended in bounds, the clock would start on the ready for play, not withstanding, a time subtraction based penalty. I didn’t see the play, but it’s not completely accurate that a period can’t end on a penalty. Had the clocked expired during the play with a penalty, that may be correct depending on if the penalty was accepted. If the clock was stopped with 20-30 seconds to adminster the penalty and the clock was properly re-started after administration, it’s ok for time to expire without another play. Again, didn’t see the play I’m just clarifying the rule b/c most folks don’t know or understand the rules like they think they do. They are very very complex and differ from one level to another (i.e. HS to NCAA to NFL), this is yet ANOTHER REASON to pay the officials what they deserve. It’s not about money to the NFL and the owners, it’s that the NFL is only interested in doing what it wants to do

$10 for the players

1 Billion Dollars for the owner

Does anyone else see why Jerry doesn’t care?

These are rules that most fans know, yet these replacement refs seem to be clueless. Have these refs ever *watched* a game of football? While the locked-out refs weren’t always perfect, they were right far more often than they were wrong. These replacement refs have been downright clueless, so I hope the NFL and referees’ union can work something out before the regular season starts.

No, Mike. They just log on to give a lot of thumbs down to any comment that is critical of Goodell.

Thank God that Goodell isn’t running an airline instead of the NFL. I can imagine him replacing all the pilots with a bunch of dudes who have no flight experience but have played a lot of hours of Flight Simulator. And then running ads that say “At Goodell Airlines, safety is our most important goal!”

As far as player safety, the players are deterred more by the fines than the penalties. The refs dont hand down fines…

That being said, the replacements are pretty terrible