re: Side Judge for Saints/Panthers replaced

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You mean to tell me that a replacement referee that does not officiate NFL on a regular basis has a favorite team!?!?!?

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In their defense, 6 months ago they were calling games on Saturday and had no thought of being on the field on Sunday. However, EVERY official signs a conflict of interest statement so he forgot about his Facebook page? I'm not questioning his integrity, but it looks bad and the whole point of the COI is to prevent this.

Then there's NFL security. They have a staff that does nothing but check on these types of things so where were they over the past month or two? Ever heard of Google?

.....end this replacement thing and get the pros back on the field.