Replacement Refs Have To Go

[RINGLEADER]

Some of the calls I've been seeing on the pre-season games are almost impossible to describe, let alone explain. Guys holding themselves. Punts that are downed 5 yards from the endzone and then ruled as touchbacks. Just amazing stuff.

I really hope the NFL comes to their senses before the real season starts...

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by -King-

You could tell that from 1 game of preseason where star players played one series?
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no, but you gotta think it will better than all the bias crap we got before.

these new guys are going to be starstruck by everyone


ed hoculi
pale guy that looks like he has vaseline all over his face and is wearing mascara

several other refs that you just know going into the game that you are going to get screwed

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Laz

no, but you gotta think it will better than all the bias crap we got before.

Why because they officiated the lingerie league? Because they officicated the 3rd best college football division?

ed hoculi
pale guy that looks like he has vaseline all over his face and is wearing mascara

several other refs that you just know going into the game that you are going to get screwed

And I would still take them 100 times out of 100 over these replacement refs.
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[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by -King-

Why because they officiated the lingerie league? Because they officicated the 3rd best college football division?

already told you ... because they will be star struck by EVERYONE

They will be just trying to not screw up and do their just


unlike several of the diva refs we ahve now that love them some camera time

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Laz

already told you ... because they will be star struck by EVERYONE

Really?

They will be just trying to not screw up and do their just


unlike several of the diva refs we ahve now that love them some camera time

On that same token, wouldn't they try to appease to the home crowd more and more so as to avoid that "camera time" and any controversy? It wouldn't surprise me if a ref straight out of Div III college is influenced by 70,000 screaming fans. That worries me.


Anyway, it's illogical to think that these refs will be better. There's a reason they were Division III refs. There's a reason they were reffing the Lingerie league.

And I found this little nugget.

“They’ve tried to say that Craig Ochoa . . . was a BCS official, that he worked in the Big Ten. He didn’t work in the Big Ten. He’s not been a major college official. I don’t think the NFL is going to say that he actually got released midway through the last Lingerie Football League season as a referee. I don’t think the league is going to put that out. The league wants as little out as possible. They don’t want people talking about it. They don’t want me talking about it.”

- Mike Pereira

[-King-]

Pereira, who as Goodell pointed out actually took the striped shirt out of mothballs and got back on the field during the 2001 lockout, explained that the decision of Division I conferences to prevent their guys from moonlighting this time around means that the pool of replacements includes high-school officials, a pair of guys who were fired by the Pac-1o for poor performance, and officials from the Lingerie Football League.

Yeah, I'd rather have the real refs.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter

NFL now foresees starting the 2012 regular season with replacement officials: http://es.pn/PeTpg9

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by -King-

Yeah, I'd rather have the real refs.

The real refs, that can't be let go, consistently call bad games and know there is no repercussions to them..

So far, from the five games I watched the first preseason week they called a better overall game.. Sure there are mistakes, but the regular refs made the same ones..

[Iowanian]

You're doing it wrong...

hmmmhhmmmm


"hey hey
Ho Ho
The female ref
has got to GO!
Hey hey....
ho ho
The shitty female ref has got to go"

back to the kitchen.

[Sorter]

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how horrible they are tonight on MNF.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

We need pete to become a ref, so we can complain about him

[CoMoChief]

maybe these new replacement refs will start calling holding on OL that hold Hali on every down. If they do I'm all for keeping them lol

[Backwards Masking]

Originally Posted by milkman

Really?

How about (who was it? Vinnie Testeverde?) a TD called on a QB scramble that fell two yards short?

Or the heads/tails call that was badly botched?

Or the fumble that cost the Chargers or Donkeys a game? Can't remember who)


Seriously, these replacements haven't been nearly as bad as portrayed, and the regular officials have never been all that good.

THREAD OVER

but don't forget the time Pey Pey wasn intercepted in a tight playoff game by Polomolu, who rolled over the ground twice, got up, started running, than fumbled, was ruled a fumble, than got overturned into a incomplete pass because "Troy did not make a move particularly common to the game of football"

the only refs that need let go are the ones who've made calls so bad they cost teams regular season or playoff victories and are so illogical most NFL fans have to wonder if they're rigging them. none of these preseason refs have made mistakes like that yet, but the ones that've been working these games the last few years, well....

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Eric Winston ‏@ericwinston

No thank you RT @AdamSchefter: NFL now foresees starting the 2012 regular season with replacement officials: http://es.pn/PeTpg9

[tecumseh]

Ed Hochuli? Good ref made his share of mistakes. The replacement refs are just as human.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Sorter

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how horrible they are tonight on MNF.

well you can guarantee that all the ex players in the media etc will do their best to yell about the replacements to help the ref union win against the NFL.