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NFL, referees close to agreement, according to reports
SB Nation ^ | September 26, 2012 | Matt Brigidi

Posted on 09/26/2012 9:38:37 AM PDT by dfwgator

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Our long national nightmare may finally be coming to an end.
1 posted on 09/26/2012 9:38:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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The regular refs inspire plenty of outrage, but the replacements are a complete and utter joke. Goodell is an idiot to have allowed this travesty to go on so long. The bad refs are affecting the outcomes of games, confusing players and coaches, and getting players hurt.

This never should have been allowed to happen, and it must be ended as soon as possible.


2 posted on 09/26/2012 9:40:55 AM PDT by karnage
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Thank God.

Finally, the replacements can go back to their day jobs at the Sports Authority.

3 posted on 09/26/2012 9:41:20 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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You just knew after Monday night’s debacle they couldn’t let it go on much longer.


4 posted on 09/26/2012 9:42:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: dfwgator

Thank you, President Obama.


5 posted on 09/26/2012 9:42:42 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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Being a ref isn’t rocket science. The folks they have now simply lack experience.


6 posted on 09/26/2012 9:43:47 AM PDT by Arthurio
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“If only more people showed as much concern for our national debt as NFL referees, our country might not be as screwed as it is.” *

*saying is credited to “Image Blitz”


7 posted on 09/26/2012 9:45:36 AM PDT by BAW (“If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”- Pres Obama)
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Our long national nightmare may finally be coming to an end.

I hope you are being sarcastic.

8 posted on 09/26/2012 9:46:28 AM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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Just a little. ;)


9 posted on 09/26/2012 9:47:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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As a frame of reference, I recently referred to my dog's several-day bout of diarrhea as "our long national nightmare."
10 posted on 09/26/2012 9:49:39 AM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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It says a lot about our country when there is more national outrage regarding football than there is about the middle east, our national debt and the appalling (real) unemployment rate.


11 posted on 09/26/2012 9:55:34 AM PDT by MichiganCheese (It's now or never!)
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Bumps in the road.


12 posted on 09/26/2012 10:00:39 AM PDT by karnage
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To: JustSayNoToNannies

Do not trivialize a dogs diarrhea.


13 posted on 09/26/2012 10:02:00 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: MichiganCheese

All it says is that we’re human. Human beings don’t deal with large vague concepts well. The NFL comes into our living rooms a couple of times a week for 6 months, with these well defined games and plays that fit nicely into our task oriented hunter gatherer brain. The Middle East is a spot on the map most of us have never been to populated by people we’ll never meet following a religion not ours. The national debt is a huge number and the human brain can really only conceptualize numbers up to about 50, real math people can grasp a couple hundred, everything past that the brain just says “a lot”. Same goes for the unemployment rate, millions of people is “a lot”, more millions is still “a lot”.


14 posted on 09/26/2012 10:02:27 AM PDT by discostu (Put another dime in the jukebox.)
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I can’t wait for the first blown call by the union refs (85% chance that call will benefit the Steelers or the Patriots) and the media excuse-making that will happen for their union buddies.

You read it here first.


15 posted on 09/26/2012 10:03:48 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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16 posted on 09/26/2012 10:05:24 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR: Now, More Than Ever.)
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LOL


17 posted on 09/26/2012 10:07:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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Do the Packers get their game back?


18 posted on 09/26/2012 10:10:30 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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As a Seahawks fan, I am happy amends were made for the 2006 Super Bowl prior to the resolution of the labor dispute.


19 posted on 09/26/2012 10:22:02 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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Not sure if it is a done deal: From Pro Football talk:

Cold water being dashed on reports of NFL-NFLRA agreement
Posted by Darin Gantt on September 26, 2012, 1:24 PM EDT
APAs if on cue, the brake-pumping has begun.

With the first wave of reports that a deal between the NFL and locked-out officials was close, next comes the wave of reports saying “Not so fast.”

Sports Illustrated’s Peter King just tweeted: “NFLRA negotiator Scott Green has notified officials that a deal is not imminent.”

That dovetails with the NFL Network’s Albert Breer’s report this morning, which acknowledged progress but noted substantial differences on the pension issue.

Perhaps the truest words of the last hour were uttered by NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, who also took to Twitter.

“Having done this before, everyone needs to wait until the ink is dry.”

Again, all signs point toward this thing being finished, and perhaps soon. Our long, national nightmare is almost over.

But as we approach the finish line, the urge to mark territory runs strong in the media, and sometimes needs to be curbed.


20 posted on 09/26/2012 10:39:12 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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