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9. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
Yup, it was LeSean McCoy:In an interview with Anthony Gargano and Ike Reese on the 94WIP Player’s Lounge on Monday, McCoy claimed that a replacement referee acted more like a fan than an official. "They’re like fans, kind of though," McCoy said, via CBS Philly. "I'll be honest, they're like fans. One of the refs was talking about his fantasy team, like 'McCoy, come on, I need you for my fantasy,' ahhh, what?!" Oh, one more qualification. I can count to 11 on my two hands.
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09-25-12, 11:23 AM (EST)
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11. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
And they wouldn't listen to you anyway!
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09-25-12, 10:43 AM (EST)
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7. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
I've always wanted to be mentioned on NPR and the zebra situation is so bad that even they are reporting on it
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09-25-12, 12:08 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
1. I own a whistle.2. I know quite a few hand gestures. Some of then even are used to indicate a football penalty. 3. If people yell at me too much, I'll just say "Bazinga". 4. I use to think being a weathergirl was the ideal job, since I could couch every decision with "chance of..." and wouldn't be fired for repeatedly being wrong. But refs don't have to coordinate their clothes to avoid vanishing into a green screen. 5. I like a job with low job expectations. 6. The concession stands sell beer, so I could enjoy a cold one during halftime since I'd have nothing else to do.
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09-25-12, 12:28 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
I've always wanted to make reality TV show judges appear impartial and competent in comparison to the job I'm doing?
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09-26-12, 01:54 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Reasons why you could be a replacement referee." |
LAST EDITED ON 09-26-12 AT 01:55 PM (EST)I refereed college intramural football, so I have about as much experience as the replacement refs. I blew a call (inadvertwent whistle while running with the freakin' whistle in my mouth and thinking, incorrewctly, the the runner had been stopped -- in fact, he was just breaking away, but I was too far away from the play to see it properly, and the official who should have called it was out of position) that cost the losing team a TD, which ultimately cost them the game, so I can ineptly affect the outcome just as well as they can. I owned up to the inadvertent whistle and apologized to the losing team (not that it made them feel any better), which shows I have more integrity than the replacement refs. Wait a minute, that last thing might disqualify me.
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09-26-12, 01:55 PM (EST)
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20. "Time is running out!" |
ESPN is reporting that the NFL and the referees are "very close" to an agreement and that enough progress was made in a meeting last night that it's possible a deal will be in place by the weekend and allow the real refs to return to the playing field.
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09-26-12, 02:10 PM (EST)
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22. "RE: Time is running out!" |
Good point on the prep. Could they (or would they) put in the real refs for part of the weekend, such as just the Sunday and Monday night games? Those are the prime games which get the largest audiences (and largest exposure for the replacement refs).
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09-27-12, 10:38 AM (EST)
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29. "RE: Lockout over..." |
Well, there went any possibility of a Browns upset over the Ravens.
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30. "The economics of it" |
Economists say that the refs are worth it."In terms of whether the refs should be getting paid more than between $80,000 and $140,000 a year, my sense is, yes, they should," said sports economist Andrew Zimbalist, a Smith College professor who has published several books on the professional sports landscape. "These are extraordinarily skilled people who are doing a job that is very demanding and even a little bit dangerous. The notion that these guys are considered part-time employees rather than people who need to stay in shape year-round and they need to study and learn and be trained about the new rules and regulations and be concerned about illegal hits and player safety, that salary range strikes me as on the low side." But perhaps not the commissioner. "Is the commissioner worth $12 million a year? On recent performance, it's not clear he is. What is clear is these referees have very significant value, and trying to play the game without them is hurting the game."
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10-04-12, 10:53 AM (EST)
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32. "Interview with a replacement ref" |
LAST EDITED ON 10-04-12 AT 10:54 AM (EST)I hate to bring up the replacement refs again, but I should make one point. In Boston, the first game of the regular season was against Tennessee. The game was actually fairly well refereed, and I thought at the time that things had come out far better than anyone expected. The next two weeks, though, the refereeing in the Patriots' games was horrific, and it was obvious that the NFL had made a huge blunder. That background is relevant because in the current issue of Time magazine is an interview with the replacement ref who was the crew chief for the New England-Tennessee game -- the only OK-refereed game I saw during the strike. His comments are interesting to me, and hopefully to the rest of you. Time published an edited version of the interview, but it also posted an unedited version on its web site, and that's what this link leads to: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/09/28/my-life-as-a-replacement-ref-three-unlikely-months-inside-the-nfl/
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33. "RE: Interview with a replacement ref" |
Thankee. It's retrospectively comforting to know at least one person out there had a brain. And I do feel bad about what he had to give up for his one shot. Move out of position for a single second and ten people jump in line behind you...
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