The NFL lockout you're not hearing about

'Lo all, wrote an article for The Pulling Linemen about the NFL lockout that's going on right now, that seems to be hardly reported anywhere - the lockout of the NFLRA (Referees Association). Hopefully the mods won't mind a sliiiiiiiight bit of blog-whoring, so please do check out the article here:

Save the Zebras

I heard about it, I just don't care that much. The refs will cave sooner or later

Maybe - but remember most of them have other jobs too. Besides, the point is that if the referees cave after week two of the regular season, that's already too late - if a single game's outcome is determined by a bad call from a replacement official, even in week one, that ultimately makes the difference between a team making the playoffs or missing the post-season, then the lockout has thrown the entire 2012 NFL season off-kilter.

Thats just being melodramatic. The incumbent refs have blown calls before numerous times.

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Thats just being melodramatic. The incumbent refs have blown calls before numerous times.

This. Plus with the new rules regarding reviewing pretty much every play it's going to be pretty tricky, even for less experienced refs, to mess things up.

thunder and lightning wrote:

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Thats just being melodramatic. The incumbent refs have blown calls before numerous times.

This. Plus with the new rules regarding reviewing pretty much every play it's going to be pretty tricky, even for less experienced refs, to mess things up.

Still so confident they won't make much of a difference, now that it looks like we'll be stuck with the replacements heading into the regular season?