Fail Mary II: Do The Seahawks Get a Cheap Win Again?
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The NFL owners, only richer than God, are preparing for another round of scab refs. It went great last time!
The NFL is laying groundwork for hiring replacement officials this season if the league is unable to agree on a new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Referees Association, according to emails reviewed Wednesday by ESPN.
The proposed approach is similar to what the NFL carried out during a 2012 lockout of officials, which extended 110 days and ended after the third week of the regular season. The current CBA is due to expire at the end of May.
According to the emails, the league is looking for a list of about 150 mostly small college officials by the end of this weekend. Those officials could begin onboarding as early as April then attend a four-day clinic in May. Absent a CBA agreement, they would continue training through the summer and make visits to training camps before the regular season begins.
The 2012 lockout ended in the best way possible, with the Seahawks being gifted an undeserved win by incompetent refs on Monday Night Football that was so embarrassing the owners caved. If we are going to have idiot scab losers–and really, in the age of massive gambling on NFL games, how could this possibly go wrong–let’s have my personal rooting interests for both sports and labor come together against a team like the Packers, where I have an obsessive fan friend I can talk shit to about this for the rest of my life.