Week 3 of the NFL season is almost over and there is one universal thing that fans of all 32 teams can agree on. These replacement referees are terrible! And that's being as nice as I can possibly be. Anyone who knows me knows there were a few expletives involved with how I really feel.
Football is possibly the toughest game to officiate, we all know this. To have hastily trained replacements (scabs as many of you would refer to them) doing a job that even the most seasoned 'NFL' official can not do flawlessly is a disgrace. The league talks about wanting to protect the players from themselves with all the rules changes and fines to crack down on the violent nature of the game. Yet you are allowing them to work in an environment now more dangerous than ever because those now in control of the game don't know what they are doing.
It can be said and argued that to this point that at least no game's outcome has been decided because of the poor officiating, this will be debated until the 'REAL' officials come back to work. But the game is much different. It's slower and lacks the flow we are generally accustomed to seeing when watching NFL football. I hope the reported $100,000 per team more that it would take to resolve the biggest issue involved in this strike is not true. If so then the owners/league should be ashamed of themselves. You put your billion dollar league's most valuable assets, it's players, at risk for what is pocket change for most of you owners. And you wonder why no ones sides with you in labor disputes. Billionaires who pay millionaires but won't spend thousands to protect the millionaires and the integrity of the game that makes them billionaires.
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