Comments on: NFL, referees agree that no agreement is coming soon

By: brianbosworthisstonecold

brianbosworthisstonecold — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 06:50:41 +0000

“All we are saaaaying is give the replacement officials a chaaaaaaaaaaaaance…..”

John Lennon

By: dremmel69

dremmel69 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:11:28 +0000

Oh my God!!! How could this happen in a civilized society! Haven’t you been reading/listening/watching all the rock-solid, hard evidence????? The replacement officials couldn’t tie their own shoes much less officiate a PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL GAME THAT MATTERS!!!! I mean, the officials are the guardians of every coaches livelihood, don’t you know. They absolutely protect all players from serious injury, haven’t you been paying attention???? They are an obvious and complete disaster and we need the superhero regular officials in place NOW. Can’t someone prevent the carnage that is obviously awaiting every coach and player??? Oh, the humanitiy!!!!!!!!!!

By: electionconfidential

electionconfidential — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:51:40 +0000

I wonder what the actual rank and file officials think… Because they are getting ready to start missing paychecks that they’ll never get back.

By: elwaysmilehighdenver

elwaysmilehighdenver — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:39:15 +0000

Hey General Goodell heed the words of the late great football fan Rodney King.
“Can’t we all just get along?”

By: Spoonthis

Spoonthis — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:34:48 +0000

How can you NFL fans whine about the referee scrubs in preseason? Are you admitting to watching the garbage that Goodell has presented us in the preseason? Goodell is a hack and the NFL is getting worse. How many starting QB’s even played in the last 2 preseason games? This week of preseason games was a joke and the owners charged full price to watch it. Last week sucked too. I haven’t seen a bad call cuz I can’t watch this crap. I did see a stuttering ref on Sports Center though.

By: eagleswin

eagleswin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:05:37 +0000

Keep in mind it’s not just about the money but ACCOUNTABILITY. Part of the league’s proposal is to make some of the refs fulltime and also to hire more refs so they aren’t forced to play refs who keep making mistakes week after week. The refs want to be appointed for life, not held accountable.

By: ripster65

ripster65 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:53:24 +0000

why was my comment about their salaries deleted? Don’t we, the fans, ultimately wind up paying the salaries of all these high $$$ atheltes and for that matter, the refs? I buy tickets, nfl gear, beer in the stands, etc. Some of that must go to the refs. I, personally, am not in favor of giving refs who work a part-time job, more of my money

By: 1122world

1122world — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:52:21 +0000

Sch rubbIsh. We the fans that created your jobs, yours included comish. Are not doing what’s right for the game and the fans.
You know the people who have turned this into a billion dollar corporation.

By: pete1616

pete1616 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:05:59 +0000

Does the nfl realize they are negotiating with a group of men that have full time jobs and make a lot of money already? They can sit out as long as they like. It’s not like when they locked out the players and the players were going to miss game checks and the owners had leverage.

By: jfinn5

jfinn5 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:55:28 +0000

Time to send these scabs back to doing their Pop Warner games on Saturday.

By: ravenmuscle

ravenmuscle — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:50:19 +0000

I hope we keep the replacement refs all year. I’ve been to too many games where the refs think they are the stars of the games by throwing flags on almost every other play…BUT when the playoffs start they keep their flags in their pockets. This tells me the league tells the refs to “LET THEM PLAY” in the playoffs.

The refs are overpaid puppets…let them stay home.

I also noticed that the National TV or Sunday and Monday night games always get the best crews while the crappy games get the dregs. Just watch…a Miami and Tampa game or a St.Louis and Cleveland game will get garbage refs

By: latenightroach

latenightroach — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:31:27 +0000

By the time they all agree on a deal, these “replacement” refs will have caught on and be doing just as good of a job for less money. Too bad we can’t get hot dogs & beer for a cheaper price.

By: wtfru2

wtfru2 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:27:10 +0000

I’m still amazed that they can’t figure out how to split 9 Billion dollars?

By: msclemons67

msclemons67 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:23:21 +0000

The replacements have at times taken longer to make a call and spot the ball but overall the calls have been about the same as the regular refs.

I haven’t seen anything near as bad as Super Bowl XL or Hochuli’s disaster in San Diego. I haven’t seen the sorts of egregious mistakes we saw in the Lions-Saints playoff game. Overall, aside from the occasional over-long huddle I haven’t really noticed a difference.

By: ripster65

ripster65 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:54:11 +0000

Hey Refs! Your jobs are right where you left them when you walked out! You’re expendable. It’s a friggin’ part-time job. Good ridance.

By: mattolikesthevikes

mattolikesthevikes — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:45:17 +0000

According to the like/dislike that these comments are getting on this thread, doesn’t appear to me that we the fans give a crap about replacement or real refs. Yeah some calls were blown but we have football again people. Let’s celebrate that.

By: sactogary

sactogary — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:44:47 +0000

A lot of people are talking like it’s not that much money and the NFL should just cave. If’s it’s not that much money, why shouldn’t the NFLRA just cave? Remember, we’re talking about one-percenters vs. one-percenters here.

By: blaksteele

blaksteele — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:42:57 +0000

Ed Hoculi (along with his guns) & the rest of the refs better hope when they do come back, they don’t have any major blown calls.

By: xxwhodatxx

xxwhodatxx — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:05:33 +0000

I sure wish I could go to work 16 days out the year and make $150000. These guys have nothing to complain about, GET BACK TO WORK YA BUMS!!

By: fmwarner

fmwarner — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:05:18 +0000

My instinct was that Goodell and the NFL are toying with the integrity of the game, and that there will be hell to pay when these replacement refs screw up a huge call and cost somebody a game.

But after reading articles like this one over the last week or two, my instinct is wrong. Most fans are either not smart enough to understand that reffing an NFL game is hard and that the locked-out refs are better, or they don’t care about the integrity of the game as long as they get FOOTBAW.

Well-played, Roger. As a bonus, you even got fans to blame refs for that un-reffable rulebook of yours.

By: freepretzels

freepretzels — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:33:03 +0000

I’ve defended Goodell on pretty much everything, but this is insane. Arguing over what amounts to pennies for the NFL is going to derail the season at some point.

There’s going to be some call that ruins a team, and then all the NFL will say is they’ll fix it next year. That’s not good enough here.

By: thestrategyexpert

thestrategyexpert — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:29:18 +0000

tbd3:

The answer is simple, and that’s because Roger Goodell does not do a good job and he is oblivious to the problem and solutions of getting the rules of the game cleaned up so that they make more logical sense and with how to solve some of the challenges to make it easier to make the correct calls.

The guy in charge of the officials doesn’t have a plan and he should have one. I have a plan to solve countless problems with the rules of the game and how the officiating personnel and processes are managed, and the NFL can clean those problems up if either the head of officials or Goodell simply figure it out.

By: mjkelly77

mjkelly77 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:29:14 +0000

I hope that the greedy part-timers never come back. Maybe then the NFL will have a shot at signing some NCAA Division I officials. They’ll end up being younger and better than the guys who are staying home with their full-time jobs.

By: source7769

source7769 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:28:37 +0000

the refs hold all the leverage once the season starts and for every bad call by the replacements their price goes up

By: bennyb82

bennyb82 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:28:35 +0000

I am guessing the NFL will cave once the entire nation begins to see egregious mistakes. Yes, mistakes are always going to be made…but the ones that we will see with the replacements are probably going to be ones that the regular officials dont make…the easy ones…as we have already witnessed in the preseason.

By: rectumdamnnearkilledem

rectumdamnnearkilledem — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:26:36 +0000

Seems to me that the NFL is paying their lawyers a lot more than what the refs are asking for. I would love to be an NFL lawyer these last few years…I would be able to afford my own team by now

By: psdaleno

psdaleno — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:25:53 +0000

just think what would happen if week 1 came off smooth with no major blown calls. the striking refs will be sh%$#@ng there pants!

By: geniusesq

geniusesq — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:25:50 +0000

Only a matter of time before these stooges start blowing games.

By: dapros

dapros — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:23:13 +0000

This is a multi billion dollar business and the bowners, through the Commissioner, are trying to nickle and dime this. The game’s credibility is at stake here, together with what’s left of the Commissioner’s.

By: thestrategyexpert

thestrategyexpert — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:23:05 +0000

The referees we are used to were overpaid and not good enough. If we have to have worse referees that’s fine as long as the costs go down, but the right thing to do is NOT to overpay a guy for doing a bad job. Most of the economic problems we face in this country are from that type of nature. I don’t want the NFL that I love to associate with that particular kind of evil. No thanks I can tough it out how it is now.