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NFL UPDATE: Refs Are Back

Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

My advice to the regular refs is to swallow your pride and settle (ASAP!) before you are not only permanently replaced but completely forgotten. (“NFL: Replacement Refs … and the Call,” The iPINIONS Journal, 2012) In the above-quoted commentary I presented a clearly rational case for the NFL to stick with the replacement refs by pointing… Read more.

NFL: Replacement Refs … and the Call

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

When NFL owners locked out regular (unionized) referees this summer over pay, pension, and other contract issues, they surely did not anticipate that the talk of the league at this point in the season would be more about bad calls than good plays. This talk came into stark relief on Monday night after a bad… Read more.