What a sad but hilarious clip. I was expecting to see the following dialogue somewhere in the video:

Fan: “Are you even a real referee?”
Ref: “No. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”

I like watching the DBs fight with WRs for position and the ball. I’ve always hated that stupid 5 yard rule. It reminds me of 80s football when Dixon and Minnifield mostly ruled the field with WRs. I like watching the OL and DL fight it out, with the holds not being called. Most OL and DL can be nasty individuals on the field, and it will play out this year. I like that the refs don’t have a hair trigger flag for ‘touching the QB’.

I figure the worst that will happen this year is a few games will be determined by bad reffing. That happens every year. After this season, the newbies are the professional refs.

The integrity of the game is not in jeopardy and neither is player safety. The only real pressure the league will feel is from the networks paying huge money to air the games. The inexperience of these refs are causing the games to go longer than they should. That effects the programming schedule and will prompt demands for action.

The replacement officials are in need of a little help and the league could easily give it to them. The league could alter the review process and that would save some time and give the guys on the field a little more confidence that the plays are getting called right. They could allow the replay officials to review questionable plays and TELL the on-field officials what the correct call is and where the ball should be placed. (Similar to NCAA system) That removes extra time going back and forth to the sideline video machine and removes much of the pressure from the inexperienced officials not used to it.

Pay the regular officials – whether or not you think what they’re asking for is fair, the amount in dispute is so insignificant to the league as to be irrelevant. It’s like $100,000 per year per team, in a league with $9 billion in revenue. That’s around .03% of revenue per team.

So stop your vendetta against the Commish. The replacements are not ‘paralyzed’.

at the end of last season (especially after the giants packer playoff game) you could have easily written a story titled…

Problems persist with [regular] officials.
the bottom line is, yes, replacement officials are not as good as the regular ones. however, with time they will be.
personally, simply because of the fact that they are unionized, i would like to see them all fired.
after all, i can’t get away with trying to threaten and strong arm my boss so why should they be able to.

Thats the point. These officials Cant do the job, at least not nearly as good as the locked out ones. You hire scabs you get scab results. Hilarious moment thou. Lol.

Even if you don’t feel like these guys are making more mistakes than the old guys, you have to admit, they’re making the games even slower – which is not a good thing.

*sarcasm*

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I was just about to post the same thing. Many times I have watched the ref go under the hood, a couple of minutes have gone by, then we’ve gone to commercials, then at the end of the commercial break the ref is still under the hood. 60 second limit my foot!

Why are you trying to hold the replacement refs to a higher standard than the regular refs? Shouldn’t it be the other way around if anything?