The owner was in the process of using a speech recognition system to dictate a letter to his girlfriend (no, nothing very steamy), and there at the bottom of the screen was his name (we'll call him Ralph).
But America's Roma (who have long resented the lack of recognition for gypsy suffering in the Holocaust) and their allies lobbied so vigorously by telephone, fax, letter and e-mail that they persuaded the administration to think again.
The replacement refs may be enforcing the letter of the law, but over time the NFL and its officials have developed nuanced enforcements of those rules in recognition of the fast paced nature of the professional football game.