NFL Prepared to Hire Replacement Refs

........ the rebuttle. lol. pretty quick.

NFL says NFLRA charge has “no merit” | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/21/nfl-says-nflra-charge-has-no-merit/)

If the replacements will call O-linemen for holding 'Rak, that will be an improvement. He is held easily 6 or 7 times a game (probably more) -- I swear one guy had a throw net.

The refs do a bad job imo. Too flag happy. Maybe the replacements will do a better job.

Could happen - - but don't bet on it.

There have been replacement refs in MLB, the NBA and the NHL in the past and none of them has done a good job.

The NFL once had replacement refs - - I think it was 2001 but don't hold me to that - - and before one of the games, one of the replacement refs went up to Jerry Rice and asked Rice for his autograph. Just a guess, but that guy is probably not going to get a call-back from the league this time around.

You may think that the NFL refs "do a bad job". I suspect that if the NFL replaces them with guys who have been officiating in the Sun Belt Conference and/or some Division III conference, things will NOT get better.

Oh, and by the way, the NFL has already said that it will NOT be trying to poach replacement refs from the "top conferences" in college football so forget about the guys who do SEC or Big Ten or PAC-12 games.

I officiated sports for 37 years. I did more basketball than all the other sports combined - -but I did a little football too. I officated games played by "kids" as compared to the NFL where the game is played by "adults".

When I was the best official that I could be, I could not have been plucked by the NFL to be given a three month indoctrination program and then gone out and done anyting but embarrass myself on national TV and in front of about 60,000 attendees.

Wouldn't surprise me at all. It seems like all the stopping and starting of the games has gotten worse over the years. W/ the slow instant re-play process, numerous flags being thrown. One thing I'd like them to do is get rid of the 2 minute warning. Really no need for it at all.

The 2-minute warning used to be important when the stadium clocks were unofficial and the offical time was kept by an official on the field.

Today, the 2-minute warning is a way for the networks to fit in another sequence of ads - - which generate the revenue that allows the networks to pay the NFL billions of dollars to televise the games which goes to the owners who pay the players who ...

I wonder if this will lead to any further investigating of labor issues, ie; the Redskins and Cowboys punishments?

NFL Referees Association files unfair labor practice charge against NFL | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/21/nfl-referees-association-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-nfl/)

If prior action is a predictor of future action, the NLRB will rule on an unfair labor practice charge made here sometime around 2014. If the NFL officials are still off doing other things in 2014, then the replacements the NFL will have hired will be reaching an acceptable competence level by then.