Enough is enough with the replacement referees..

[W4GPL]

Argh! Am I the only one sick of hearing game after game, week after week that the officials made another mistake? The incidents are too numerous to list at this point. The NFL makes billions of dollars -- is it really worth their reputation to hold out for a few million?

The NFL needs to relent and get rid of these second rate scabs.

[WX7P]

Agreed. The replacement refs suck.

The labor dispute really breaks down to this: Owners: "nobody else has a defined benefit program anymore, so why should you (refs) have one?"

The only worse situation is the NHL lockout with their greedy owners.

[W2NAP]

agreed. these refs suck

[W5GA]

I haven't been following this too closely, as I'm not the worlds biggest football fan.....where did the replacements come from?

[W4GPL]

College division and other professional league refs... arena league, etc. They're a haphazardly picked group. They even have.. *gasp* a female ref. It's a world gone mad! ;)

[W4GPL]

OH FOR FSCKS SAKE!

The part time refs just gave the game to Seattle.. Green Bay walked off the field even though there's still a point after attempt.

I'm done with the NFL until this shit is resolved.

[W4GPL]

These players on Seattle don't even seem embarrassed to have won. They can't truly believe that they did..

[KB3LAZ]

I can only assume from your first post that NFL refs are on strike? Scabs and all.

[KC9ECI]

That ref is probably lucky he didn't make that call in Green Bay. Things could have got ugly fast.

[KG4CGC]

Not to go off topic but look at the timing of things.

[W4GPL]

What? The elections?

[KG4CGC]

What? The elections?

Yep. Get everyone's mind off of the clown show and on the NFL Circus.

[W4GPL]

Yep. Get everyone's mind off of the clown show and on the NFL Circus.:dunno: Fine by me, football is something I use as a mental distraction, anyway. Stupid Paul Ryan said the NFL refs must be from Obama's budget office.. clever, come up with that all yourself? :roll: Ok, enough politics in my sports forum. ;)

[W2NAP]

seriously the NFL would have been better off just grabbing abounch of blind guys and putting them as refs over what they have done

[W4GPL]

Isn't that what they did?

[W4GPL]

Lang Says Players Could Take Action If NFL Refs Issue Continues

DETROIT (97.1 The Ticket) On the long flight back for the Green Bay Packers following the team’s 14-12 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, players debated going on strike or taking a knee on every play in upcoming games if the replacement referee issue isn’t solved.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/09/25/lang-says-players-could-take-action-if-nfl-refs-issue-continues/

Damn skippy, show some solidarity!

http://www.seiu.org/images/Norma-Rae-movie-Union.jpg

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Aliens%20Guy/578471_356590241095352_1562540749_n1_zps649ea831.j pg

[W4GPL]

Looks like our long national nightmare could be over.. :lol:

It's not inked, but the refs and NFL have reached a tentative agreement. Yippee-skippee!

[W4GPL]

Le sigh...

--
ESPN is reporting that “an agreement in principle is at hand” between the NFL and locked-out officials, with the possibility that the regulars could be back on the field by this weekend.

But an individual within the NFL Referees Assn. told The Times on Wednesday that the sides are not on the brink of an agreement and are continuing to negotiate with the help of a federal mediator.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-nfl-referees-deal-20120926,0,2945769.story

[W4GPL]

CNN: The NFL and its locked-out referees have reached agreement on a contract that will return the officials to the field.

[KG4CGC]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastaball

[W4GPL]

Heard about that.. can't wait to catch it.

[KG4CGC]

Heard about that.. can't wait to catch it.

It's already a rerun here. Honest.

[W4GPL]

Yeah, I know it's already aired, I just haven't ran across it yet. I don't have a DVR or anything fancy like that at the moment so I have to see it when it's on.. or watch it on the Intertubes.

[KG4CGC]

Yeah, I know it's already aired, I just haven't ran across it yet. I don't have a DVR or anything fancy like that at the moment so I have to see it when it's on.. or watch it on the Intertubes.

Everything after the first 13 words just went straight over mt scalp.

[N2NH]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastaball

Episode here.

Just seen it. Whoa.
(http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e08-sarcastaball)