Comments on: Ray Anderson likely is safe

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:54:46 +0000

If you’re going to fire him, fire him for the regular officials, not the replacements.

By: thefirstsmilergrogan

thefirstsmilergrogan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:54:56 +0000

Here’s the calculus. We, the owners, tried a gambit to take advantage of the economic downturn. We left our deal with the players just two years in and forced them to take a deal for less money. Not only that, they now have way less influence in the way we run out businesses. Those fools even let Goodell be the appeal officer for his own decisions.

We tried the same play on the referees. Even though it was a piddling amount of money, we couldn’t resist using the big stick we had been inadvertently handed. We were just trying to help our fellow owners get ahead in the Forbes list. All the refs, however, had other jobs and didn’t have a financial chasm if they were locked out like most of our short-sighted players. So, they called our bluff.

Sadly, even though we thought the general public (fools that they are) wouldn’t care about the high school refs, it became apparent it was costing us way more than we were going to make. After losing a game to a disputed field goal, Bob Kraft finally told Goodell to fix the mess. Within three days, the negotiations which had dragged on for nine months were concluded.

Now, it seems some people blame us for this whole fiasco. Not to worry, folks, we have decided that the entire failed attempt to make a few more million for the owners was actually the idea of a mid-level employee. We will trot him out and tell everyone how he failed to train high school and junior college refs to be good enough.

We will fool all the people who make McDonalds the most popular restaurant, and the rest will forget about it when the next edition of Sports Center comes on…..

By: pabrownsfan

pabrownsfan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:30:33 +0000

Sort of like closing the barn door after all the critters got out isnt it?

By: mavajo

mavajo — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:24:30 +0000

C’mon now. They’re gonna try to peg that brutal miscalculation on one guy? Aside from the idiot ham ‘n eggers that think every bad call is a conspiracy against their team and that they could do a better job out there, even fans realized replacements weren’t going to be able to handle the gig. We the fans, who the NFL felt were too dumb and emotional to handle access to All 22 tape until this year, saw the replacements as a disaster waiting to happen — am I really supposed to believe that the owners, Goodell and others couldn’t see that too?

Sounds like Ray is being made to fall on his sword here to help the NFL save face. What a disgrace.

By: ytsejamer1

ytsejamer1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:12:20 +0000

The NFL is unbelievable (sarcasm)…but not surprising. Again…blaming a single guy – who is an employee of said business entity; for the debacle that was the replacement refs. It’s almost disgusting who the NFL likes to pass the buck when they look like idiots…and lay it at the feet of one employee. Go team.