BUT, if the Cowboys lose on Sept 5th because of a blown call, Jerry will fix the problem. He cannot afford another year like the last three – losing too much money!

With that said I think what fans can do is complain to their team. Especially if you are a season ticket holder. As a matter of fact a season ticket holder has a basis to file a lawsuit here. THey have degraded the product that was contracted when bought. If I was a season ticket holder, I would make a daily call to the team and demand a partial discount/refund of some of my money, or an end to the refs lockout. Not that I think this would make much if any difference. Even if 1000 season ticket holders from every team did it. But it is the one realistic way you could make the team deal with your complaints/requests and not just hang up every time you call.

Terrible calls that cost teams games … I remember when the young and mobile replacement officials cost the Lions a game by ruling that a Calvin Johnson TD was not a catch. How could anyone make such a terrible call?”

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And this is what dumb fans don’t get: That was the RIGHT call according to the rulebook.

Your beef is with the rulebook — the refs don’t write the rulebook. The owners do. The refs merely enforce those rules.

As dumb as that rule is, the refs applied it correctly. According to the stupid rule written by the owners and their Competition Committee, that was NOT a catch.

Get your beef straight, knucklehead.

NFLRA loses leverage with every passing gameday.

Get rid of replay reviews. This game is getting to be almost as slow as baseball with all of the video reviews.

Get rid of all the turnover rules and use just one: if the ball comes out before the whistle blows, regardless of how it happens, it’s a turnover that is either recovered or lost.

All of this rules b.s. during games is making me sick. I mean, who the **** wants to hear some ex head of officiating going on and on about interpretations of the rules? Go **** yourself.

Fact is, officiating is difficult and they all make mistakes that look blatant on slow motion high def replays. Originals and replacements.

The new York giants lost to the packers last season due to bad calls. Bad calls were the only reason the packers scored a single touchdown in the post season as well. The part time refs make horrendous calls all the time.

To anyone talkig about the replacement refs not knowing the rules, sometimes the part time refs make horrible calls to. Ask lions fans how they feel about the refing against the saints last year. Ask the ravens fans how they felt after the refs gave the pats the game in 07 to help keep the perfect season alive. Ask the Viking fans from 09 who watched the refs help the saints make the superbowl because katrina was all the talking heads talked about all season long.

The NFL wants these refs to be held accountable for these calls so the part timers can’t ruin the integrity of the game pile they have been doing the last few years. To make it a competition for who gets to keep these part time jobs that pay 5 times the average fans salery for not even half the work.

The part time refs don’t just want tons of money but the freedom to not have to worry about getting fired for bad calls because they know they make.

About injury’s, when has a flag been thrown for a helmet to helmet hit the play before it happens? When has a ref stepped in from of a defended who was about to grab a players collar from behind? How good were the refs at stopping rothlesburger from getting punched in the face or suh from stomping on the packers lineman. When have the refs helped mike vick stay healthy for a whole season? Imjurys are gonna happen no matter what refs are working the game.

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I think Coughlin and Belichick cared plenty about the officiating. Belichick is one of the few who has been willing to speak up in support of the professional refs.

I was on the owner’s side when they locked out the player’s… this time they simply wrong.

Let’s not forget, everyone who is currently whining about the replacement refs, that one of the things the NFL wants to do is to hold the REFS accountable and to be able to the replace them if they perform poorly.

The refs don’t want that and it’s one of the main reasons they are holding out. They want to be appointed for life without being held to a standard.

Short term pain for long term gain.

Mike Pereira actually said most of the calls are subjective and calls will be missed by both sets of refs, that his beef was more on the administration of the game, i.e. marking off the correct # of yards, clock mgmt, ball placement that sort of thing. That I agree with. But all we hear are the talking heads talking the integrity of the game or potentially injuries. Many posters have accurately noted that a penalty would happen post injury so that’s not a valid argument. I’m not sure what this integrity of the game argument is all about cause I’ve seen Tom Brady and other high profile QBs get the benefit of the roughing the passer call and pass interference call that were simply horrible.

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I guess we will have to “ax” the team after a call winds them a game. Maybe days wills feels different bouts it den.

Fan Experience ?…the fan has one reason only for his existence……to pay.pay,pay ? …Nothing will ever happen on behalf of the fans…unless they close their wallets and stop paying !…and the NFL is betting we will NEVER do this !

but what if a terrible call wind you a game? any complaints then?

NO! None at all. The regular refs cost us games last year – FACT.

You do realize that for every game the refs cost us, those same refs HELP someone else. Not every call goes against your team, half will be in your favor. The new refs will be as good as the bad old refs.

The old refs were offered $189,000.00 for working 18 days – and they said “no”. I don’t feel sorry for them at all. They had their chance, now it is time for someone else. This is free market at it’s finest. You don’t want to work for this salary, fine – have a nice day. Next…

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Hochuli is a big time litigation partner at an Arizona law firm. He is one official that you know is not in it for the money. Judging by the way he calls games, it’s a pure ego trip for him.

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Right, because expecting officials to get the calls correct and basic knowledge of the rules is laughable….

I’ll tell you what’s laughable.. Defending refs who call a touchback when a ball is clearly down at the 5… or letting the clock run out at the end of a half on a defensive penalty..and trust me, the list goes on..

The rate at which the other stuff happens is what’s ridiculious (non calls, bad calls,etc.) – I never questioned that it happens, just the rate at which it does ( as it has been echo’ed by players, gm’s, coaches,and analysts around the league)…

but hey, they don’t know what they’re talking about right? Because it’s just “laughable”