I seriously wonder how much these NFL replacement refs are making and once I hear the number, if I can apply for the job. Based on the calls I've seen in the first two weeks of the season, there's a decent chance I could do just as well, if not better than these refs.
In Week 1, the Seattle Seahawks were given four timeouts in the second half of their 20-16 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Last I heard, teams possessed only three timeouts in each half. I'm now being told this is true, but Seattle had access to a get-a-free-timeout coupon it saw in their local paper and the referees accepted it.
This same thing benefited the Detroit Lions in their opening week come-from-behind win against the St. Louis Rams, as they were afforded a fourth timeout in the second half. Rumor has it that Lions head coach Jim Schwartz bribed the replacement officials with Monopoly money and they took it.
Forty-four seconds magically vanished from the clock pending a challenge from Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach Mike Tomlin in the Steelers' opening-week loss to the Denver Broncos. These particular 44 seconds haven't been spotted since, but are said to be taking a vacation in Hawaii.
Toward the end of the game yesterday between the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens, the Eagles were down 23-17 and driving when quarterback Michael Vick threw the ball forward just before being taken to the ground. Balitmore jumped on the ball and the referees looked at one another like deer look at headlights, before finally signalling it was Baltimore's ball. Upon review, as most blind men could see, the referees saw that it was an incomplete forward pass and not a fumble.
Refs are often times made to be scapegoats for a team's loss. Once in a great while, this can happen, but most every time, the team itself lost the game. But so while referees typically won't be receiving too many nice gifts in their stockings around Christmas time from NFL players and fans, they are being sorely missed by the league and its fans now, because these replacement refs are providing more comedy than Dane Cook after giving his audience a good dosage of nitrous oxide. I'm just waiting for the moment when a replacement ref signals a penalty for a false start, but calls it traveling, that or he calls a touchdown a home run. Sadly, after watching the officiating these first two weeks of the NFL season, I think those ridiculous events are quite possible.
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2012/9/12/3315192/nfl-replacement-referees-mistakes-week-1
In Week 1, the Seattle Seahawks were given four timeouts in the second half of their 20-16 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Last I heard, teams possessed only three timeouts in each half. I'm now being told this is true, but Seattle had access to a get-a-free-timeout coupon it saw in their local paper and the referees accepted it.
This same thing benefited the Detroit Lions in their opening week come-from-behind win against the St. Louis Rams, as they were afforded a fourth timeout in the second half. Rumor has it that Lions head coach Jim Schwartz bribed the replacement officials with Monopoly money and they took it.
Forty-four seconds magically vanished from the clock pending a challenge from Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach Mike Tomlin in the Steelers' opening-week loss to the Denver Broncos. These particular 44 seconds haven't been spotted since, but are said to be taking a vacation in Hawaii.
Toward the end of the game yesterday between the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens, the Eagles were down 23-17 and driving when quarterback Michael Vick threw the ball forward just before being taken to the ground. Balitmore jumped on the ball and the referees looked at one another like deer look at headlights, before finally signalling it was Baltimore's ball. Upon review, as most blind men could see, the referees saw that it was an incomplete forward pass and not a fumble.
Refs are often times made to be scapegoats for a team's loss. Once in a great while, this can happen, but most every time, the team itself lost the game. But so while referees typically won't be receiving too many nice gifts in their stockings around Christmas time from NFL players and fans, they are being sorely missed by the league and its fans now, because these replacement refs are providing more comedy than Dane Cook after giving his audience a good dosage of nitrous oxide. I'm just waiting for the moment when a replacement ref signals a penalty for a false start, but calls it traveling, that or he calls a touchdown a home run. Sadly, after watching the officiating these first two weeks of the NFL season, I think those ridiculous events are quite possible.
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2012/9/12/3315192/nfl-replacement-referees-mistakes-week-1
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