Is it so difficult to understand that when you can perform a job that very few others are able to do, you will be well compensated for it?

And it is clear that the replacements — even with exponentially more experience and talent for this task than any of the knuckleheads above — cannot perform to the level of real NFL officials.

What’s this? Calvin Johnson makes 20 million a year? Jeez, I’ll do that! Sign me up!!

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Being prior service myself I always get a kick out of civies who try and pull the “troop card” when they have no logical counterpoint. Have you served? If not, then shut your mouth as you’ve contributed nothing and have no place using military personnel to support your argument . And also speaking as prior service, nobody twisted my arm to join up.

And “self important”? LOL. I didn’t even mention myself in my post. You know what? Don’t even try to talk to a recruiter, as i’m sure your ASVAB score would be so embarrassingly low you’d be sent home to the chorus of laughter as the recruiter tells you to leave the premises.

Packers vs Seahawks

Yes, for all the screwups the real guys make, over the seasons – NEVER have we had it this bad.

Maybe they are worth the $150K plus defined benefit retirement package…no?

1) Missed the offensive PI on the hail mary, in which #37 of the Packers was blatantly pushed to the ground.

2) #43 of the Packers clearly had control of the ball in the end zone.

Unbelievable.

OUTRAGEOUS! Heads need to roll.

Great concept. Take 200 returning service men and women to train for the full time replacement job. They have served our country and defended us. Now let us reward them with some jobs. Help the vets!!

Still believe the lockout backfired because the nfl didnt prepare enough to have the replacements more up to speed and gave the regulars more leverage

What more aggravating the fact that the regulars make excellent bank and want more or the replacements are making 150k part time and suck at their job right now.

In essence what Goodell and the owners are doing is defrauding the fans and viewing public, in my opinion. They say they are offering officially sanctioned NFL football as their product when what they are now putting forth (by shamelessly using these replacement officials) is a disorderly, confusing and ruleless scuffle! In a word, what Goodell and the owners are doing is a sham.

Because the fans are addicted and have to get their weekly football fix, everyone is accepting these scuffles (this sham) as the real deal. And, Goodell and the owners are laughing all the way to the bank; integrity of the game and player safety be damned.

As for me, I’ll resume watching NFL football when the dispute between Goodell and the game officials is resolved. That is, when the regular officials are back on the field and the real game of NFL football resumes. Until then, I’m not letting myself be duped. I’ll watch some honest entertainment like a good movie.

I made a poor career choice, as I have to work year round. (270 days, a year, on average, minus holidays and vacation)
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If this is true, you should have either gone to a better school or studied harder.

Obviously, I made the wrong parental decision.

There is no consistency here. How can Julian Edelman get called for offensive pass interference when Torrey Smith doesn’t? They both did the same thing (namely nothing) but Edelman got a penalty.

I’ve loved NFL football since I was 7 years old. But now for the first time I don’t really want to watch it anymore. The refs are making this league impossible to enjoy.

A) Make this my sole job, not a “part-time job”, including watching film of games during the “work-week” to try to train my eye to catch what players are doing to cheat and get away with it

B) Make it my mission during the “work-week” to actually read/know the rule book by heart so I could get it right on gameday.

C) Watch tape to see how other crews work a game

D) Treat it like a real job and not a hobby when I’m not selling insurance Monday-Friday.

These refs, as good as they are compared to an entire fresh rookie crew working a game, have abused the really wonderful position they had for the most part. The good officials, there are some, are brought down by the ones just enjoying a cush job with great travel.

The point is, as an organization, the officials union failing to hold their refs to a high standard created this situation.

It makes for some painful watching this season, true. Ask those of us that watched the PIT/OAK game… the refs scored a bonus 11 points for Oakland between an obvious hold on the corner during McFadden’s long run uncalled and an offside that was actually illegal motion inside the 10 for OAK for a first down, then touchdown 1 play later. I say 11 and not 14 bonus points since a legit field goal was about 95% sure-thing at that point.

Next year will be better, and at least replacement refs will know they have to WORK at their job to keep it.

(ps, for those that will argue that 2nd flag I mentioned was proper, the defensive lineman was back out of the zone after NO contact with the offensive line, well before the offensive lineman “jumped”. He wasn’t induced, he was acting like he was scared out of his stance a full second after the fact, it was like a bad fake fall in soccer… but it worked. The Sunday night game officials correctly called the same type of issue in their game, illegal motion not off-sides. I really want to see officials call a good game, it isn’t much to ask for really.)

This plus all the benefits AND they get the best damn seat in the house! I think I like the replacement refs even more now.