FILL-INS?

The NFL seems to want its cake and eat it too, they can’t settle with the game officials so they bring in a bunch of amateurs who don’t know the rules and seem to be creating a lot of controversy.

Missed calls, blown decisions and not interpreting the rules properly have had a negative impact on the last two weeks of play! They have hired people who had to study the NFL rules the last two months in hopes of getting up to speed, and it is not working out very well!

While this disagreement is going on, they are charging full-price for the games, while delivering an inferior product. The players are all up in arms and angry, the coaches have to be restrained form killing some of these guys, and who’s to blame?

Officiating is a very difficult thing for a person to do during a game that involves 22 men being watched, it is probably the hardest job in sports. The amount of concentration must be very high. If the people doing it are not experienced enough, they should not be out there, and the games should not be played.

This to me is like a lockout or player’s strike, when either happens, they close the stadiums, they should treat the officials with equal importance and close the stadiums. Of course this will lose a lot of revenue, but the owners greed, and insensitivity to the value of real professional officiating is destroying credibility for the NFL!

That’s all I wrote, folks!