There is no evidence that his fellow refs, working right alongside him, even suspected anything.
Regular refs blow calls, too, a fact that seems to have been forgotten amid the bluster.
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Refs in all sports are at their best when they are not a factor in the games.
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The third quarter seemed to last forever, mostly because the refs took their sweet time making calls.
Watching these replacement refs try to make a correct call was like watching a stoner make a lasagna.
It seems an eternity ago that we were all talking about the replacement refs because of a labor dispute.
Last week, in the first games of the NFL season, there were no major gaffes by the replacement refs.
The League position that the refs are modular, fungible and replaceable is inaccurate.
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This week, there was controversy with the refs before the games even started.
He generally stays out of the limelight but, like Cuban, he has been fined by the NBA for criticizing refs.
Hi Gareth, Andrew and David, as usual some refs came in for some stick, some rightly so and others wrongly.
Using scab replacement refs is the equivalent of policing and adjudicating that well-paved highway with totally incompetent traffic cops and judges.
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The refs lost control of the game, and added to the confusion by stopping the clock twice for the two-minute warning.
It's as simple as the directive given to refs about tip tackles.
Sadly, we may be stuck with these refs for the foreseeable future.
So a true fairness issue was at play here if certain teams had a greater number of games called by the replacement refs.
The referees represented by the NFLRA will be returning to the field and the replacement refs will be a relic of the past.
In earlier games, the refs gave the Seahawks extra timeouts, the San Francisco 49ers extra replay challenges and awarded the wrong yardage on penalties.
The NFL was willing to jeopardize the integrity of the entire game by employing amateur refs in order to win a tiny financial victory.
In an earlier post, I made the argument that replacement refs would be a disaster for the NFL. I stand by that point.
"It shocks the refs, the way our guys react, " says Dealy.
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More recently, the chief concern by pundits has been that the NFL risked permanently tarnishing the integrity of the game through the use of replacement refs.
The NFL watched the replacement refs make many wrong calls in the first two weeks of the regular season and let them continue to make them.
With no lockout looming this season (at least for the players, not the refs), fans were more eager to go virtual with Madden NFL 13 early this year.
Replacement refs, which have been culled from lower-tier college leagues (and maybe even the Lingerie League), went through their first series of preseason games this past weekend.
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The use of replacement refs will make that nearly impossible.
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