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re: Replacement refs will begin NFL regular season
Posted on 8/29/12 at 5:14 pm to arrakis
Posted on 8/29/12 at 5:14 pm to arrakis
The replacement refs are scared to make the wrong call.. JIMMY graham got raped the other night in the endzone and it was a no call . These types of plays will cost multiple games imo, and its a shame that less than 1% of the total money is all this entails.
Roger is a piece of shite and is easily the worst commish in pro sports
Roger is a piece of shite and is easily the worst commish in pro sports
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Posted on 8/29/12 at 5:21 pm to GeauxBayouBengals
As someone who has not kept up with any of this, can someone tell me why the refs are on strike? TIA.
Posted on 8/29/12 at 5:27 pm to GeauxBayouBengals
Opinions(including my own) of the NFL will continue to get worse if they don't get their shite straight.
Posted on 8/29/12 at 6:05 pm to FootballHog
quote:
As someone who has not kept up with any of this, can someone tell me why the refs are on strike?
Pay
Benefits (Pension)
....bottom line is the NFL wants the officials to work fewer games with a 2 1/2% net raise in pay and pay for their own pension. The last I heard the officials want the same number of games with a 5% raise (originally asked for 11%) and the league to co-pay the pension.
Somewhere in there is a workable deal and they need to get it settled.
Posted on 8/29/12 at 8:33 pm to GeauxBayouBengals
The league might have the money to give them after they collect the fines from all the coaches who will be bitching about replacement refs.
Posted on 8/29/12 at 9:03 pm to Mikes My Tiger
All I know is that the same people charging full price for a preseason game are the ones trying to save a few bucks on refs.
Posted on 8/29/12 at 11:33 pm to jacks40
The league moved the 3pm national game back to 3:25cst kickoff. The length of the games is going to give the networks fits
Posted on 8/30/12 at 5:28 am to supatigah
come on. the NFL makes enough freaking money to pay the real refs. wtf man.
don't belittle the professional game with non professional refs. these guys aren't even the best of ncaa or anything. they are scrubes who call anything close as PI. and they are wildly inconsistent all preseason long.
don't belittle the professional game with non professional refs. these guys aren't even the best of ncaa or anything. they are scrubes who call anything close as PI. and they are wildly inconsistent all preseason long.
Posted on 8/31/12 at 3:29 pm to SouljaBreauxTellEm
spoke to a friend who is a college official and whose Dad is a long time official in the NFL
he said:
the league wants to raise the first year Reff salary and freeze the experienced reffs salary. the league is then saying they are giving the reffs a pay raise when in reality they are taking the steps to phase out the current part time officials and phase in the full time officials.
the league wants to dump the pension plan and roll everyone into a 401K
the full set of brand new NFL reff uniforms for the 2012 season are hanging in his dad's office
the college assignment commissioners told every D-1 and Div 1AA official that if they took the NFL replacement reff contract they were fired from their college jobs immediately because they could not guarantee they would be available for the start of college football season. Plus if they had any shot at landing a spot in the NFL in the future, the Union would black ball them from membership. So the majority of the replacement officials are D-2, D-3, NAIA, JUCO and high school. They are woefully overmatched by the NFL rulebook.
Jerry Markbreit, the NFL official who heads up the training department for the league was fired along with 8 other officials July 20 for refusing to train the replacement reffs. So even the trainers are replacements.
The average NFL crew is expected to complete a game in 2hrs and 50 min to 3 hrs and 10 mins. If the game goes longer than 190 mins without a legitimate reason or overtime the crew will be reprimanded. The average preseason game is running 3hrs and 20 mins to 3 hrs and 40mins. This is going to wreak havoc with the networks and their scheduling.
here is a great SI article from last week with a lot of interesting information
he said:
the league wants to raise the first year Reff salary and freeze the experienced reffs salary. the league is then saying they are giving the reffs a pay raise when in reality they are taking the steps to phase out the current part time officials and phase in the full time officials.
the league wants to dump the pension plan and roll everyone into a 401K
the full set of brand new NFL reff uniforms for the 2012 season are hanging in his dad's office
the college assignment commissioners told every D-1 and Div 1AA official that if they took the NFL replacement reff contract they were fired from their college jobs immediately because they could not guarantee they would be available for the start of college football season. Plus if they had any shot at landing a spot in the NFL in the future, the Union would black ball them from membership. So the majority of the replacement officials are D-2, D-3, NAIA, JUCO and high school. They are woefully overmatched by the NFL rulebook.
Jerry Markbreit, the NFL official who heads up the training department for the league was fired along with 8 other officials July 20 for refusing to train the replacement reffs. So even the trainers are replacements.
The average NFL crew is expected to complete a game in 2hrs and 50 min to 3 hrs and 10 mins. If the game goes longer than 190 mins without a legitimate reason or overtime the crew will be reprimanded. The average preseason game is running 3hrs and 20 mins to 3 hrs and 40mins. This is going to wreak havoc with the networks and their scheduling.
here is a great SI article from last week with a lot of interesting information
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