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To: TheBigB

Nope. The officiating sucked. If we just "get over it" the NFL will continue to use part time officials that are mucking up the game. FWIW, I live in Texas, never Washington or PA, couldn't care less about either team. Referees changed the game with bad calls. This needs to turn into a full-blown public relations nightmare for the NFL. They have GOT to get decent, full-time officials, and quit making the referee job something a high school teacher does on the weekends. 2.5 mil for a commercial, and they can't afford a full-time person to call the game?


164 posted on 02/06/2006 8:16:14 AM PST by Richard Kimball (Look, Daddy! Teacher says every time a Kennedy talks, a Republican gets a house seat!)
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To: Richard Kimball
They have GOT to get decent, full-time officials, and quit making the referee job something a high school teacher does on the weekends.

The use of part-time officials is one big thing the NFL has gotten right over the years. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that there has never been a "high school teacher" working as an on-field NFL official in decades. The NFL insists on using part-time officials who are typically highly-respected, well-paid executives from Monday to Friday. They do this because a guy who is a regional vice president for Exxon/Mobil or Citicorp is far less likely to throw a game for gamblers than a high school gym teacher.

172 posted on 02/06/2006 8:23:01 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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