Comments on: Female official scheduled to make regular-season debut in Detroit

By: 2ndaryinsanity

2ndaryinsanity — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:33:42 +0000

The idea that a woman’s “place” in football should only be shaking pom-pom’s on the sideline is offensive. Wake up…the year is 2012, not 1952.

By: kevinfromphilly

kevinfromphilly — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:57:59 +0000

Congrats to her. Just a shame so few people will actually see it.

By: htown1035

htown1035 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:52:14 +0000

Think there’s a female ref in the Texans/Vikings game as well…FYI

By: ocdn

ocdn — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:09:04 +0000

Doesn’t matter…male or female…still a scab.

By: archetypeobscure

archetypeobscure — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:56:48 +0000

I don’t doubt that she could do an adequate job, but football is sort of a dudes thing in general. Like female announcers… It’s just not the same. I’m glad she like football, and wouldn’t you like to marry a woman like that, but it’s one of those things where I’m perfectly fine with the most important role a woman playing in football is to stand on the sidelines in a mini-skirt -cheering. I doubt you would even have noticed had there not been a statement about it, and you know the announcers will be talking about it like it’s some sort of monolithic achievement, and the camera is going to be watching her run around. I could do without it.

By: staffordsyear

staffordsyear — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:52:33 +0000

Oh thats great.

By: roastedteacher

roastedteacher — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:36:45 +0000

While it’s probably true that the regular officials are better than the replacements in general, with some reasonable assumptions regarding distribution of quality and probability, it is likely that about 30% of the replacements are actually better than about 25%-40% of the regular officials, depending on how many layers deep you wanted to assume they had to go to get the replacements.

So it’s really unfair to say or imply that she’s bad, especially since I don’t recall reading any sort of report criticizing her officiating since the pre-season began.

By: greenandgold1972

greenandgold1972 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:13:10 +0000

“not by successfully navigating the lower levels of the sport”

She’s been a referee at lower level for 16 years. If it wasn’t for the lock-out she would’ve never had the chance to go to NFL, where the referee stay until they are 70 y.o.

The best of the best (debatable) don’t allow their work to be reviewed and I seriously doubt they would allow a woman in their club

By: daaabears

daaabears — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:10:44 +0000

Rookie ref and overanxious 3rd stringers trying to make the team…
Just hope she’s not in the wrong place at the wrong time.

By: gloryfromheaven

gloryfromheaven — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:52:33 +0000

Just another reason why we need our official refs to come back…

By: scouter2012

scouter2012 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:52:04 +0000

Very cool.

By: kegowhisky

kegowhisky — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:48:25 +0000

I’d rather watch her than Ed Hochuli….

By: pilonflats

pilonflats — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:46:50 +0000

good for her