Where do I find the refs names and qualifications?

[Badgerinmaine]

Its not the replacements fault for being in this position. They are trying (often failing) to do a decent job.

Its the bozos who approved their hiring 2 months before the season who need to revisit their decision-making.

I completely agree, and I'm sure they are trying their best. But, I think the question "what are their qualifications?" is a valid one.

[Badgerinmaine]

This demonstrates that colleges have some good refs or at least better then terrible. I don't think they have any D1 refs as replacements. Do they even have any college refs? NCAA might have prohibited the rest.

I know there are no Division 1-A referees (I know it's a different name now). Many major conferences have a referee development contract with the NFL that precludes them doing so, and the other 1-A conferences chose to follow their lead. Many are junior college or high school referees; I think there might be some D2 and D3 referees. Some are retired or former 1-A refs. Rhone-Dunn used to be a Division 1-A official and even worked the Sugar Bowl a few years ago. It figures he'd be the one who got the call in the end zone right and was overturned by Easley, who's a California junior college ref.

[Badgerinmaine]

One of the criticisms that I've been hearing about the call last night is the failure of the Referee to conference with the 2 officials who had clearly made different calls on the same play.

That's exactly the point Peter King made this morning in SI: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz27Uj542OP

[channtheman]

I think this explains a lot.

[Freak Out]

Apparently some of these wankers were fired from the Lingerie League for incompetence. Can't be true.

[mraynrand]

Joint possession in the Lingerie League!

[Badgerinmaine]

Apparently some of these wankers were fired from the Lingerie League for incompetence. Can't be true.

The LFL issued a press release last night claiming "several crews" that had been let go for incompetence were working as NFL replacement officials: http://deadspin.com/5946112/the-lingerie-football-league-announces-that-it-fired-a-couple-crews-which-apparently-are-now-officiating-in-the-nfl-because-of-incompetence
The only specific person anyone's pointed to, though is referee Mike Ochoa, who was called out by Mike Pereira during a broadcast earlier this year as having been dumped by the Lingerie Football League.
Rejected by a group of pretty women...sounds like some of my Saturday nights in college.

[digitaldean]

https://bitly.com/VEC7Ln+
Want to read something even more infuriating? The official overseeing the botched replay last night was none other than Phil Luckett. He's the putz who couldn't even get the coin flip right in a Steelers-Lions game. They now make the visitors call it before the coin is tossed because of this clown.
It wasn't 3 blind mice, it was the Helen Keller Society officiating last nights game. (my apologies to associating anyone who is hearing or visually impaired to these clowns who worked the game)

[mraynrand]

Phil Luckett?

Good Lord

[Jimx29]

http://nfl.si.com/2012/09/25/meet-replacement-refs-behind-packers-seahawks-controversy/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[MadScientist]

The LFL issued a press release last night claiming "several crews" that had been let go for incompetence were working as NFL replacement officials: http://deadspin.com/5946112/the-lingerie-football-league-announces-that-it-fired-a-couple-crews-which-apparently-are-now-officiating-in-the-nfl-because-of-incompetence
The only specific person anyone's pointed to, though is referee Mike Ochoa, who was called out by Mike Pereira during a broadcast earlier this year as having been dumped by the Lingerie Football League.
Rejected by a group of pretty women...sounds like some of my Saturday nights in college.

So we get idiots who can't even keep their eyes on the action of hot women in lingerie grabbing each other?

[KYPack]

Phil Luckett?

Good Lord

This incident furthers the "Luckett legacy". His fuck-up in the coin toss is only one of his famous screw-ups. NFL films did a mini feature on Luckett and all his mess ups when he was an active NFL referee. Luckett should have contacted the referee down on the field and schooled him to get involved in the situation becuase they had a hot replay that needed to be factored into the decision.

The Seahawk debacle is the fourth or fifth famous fubar in Luckett's long career.

[Badgerinmaine]

So we get idiots who can't even keep their eyes on the action of hot women in lingerie grabbing each other?

It's hard to keep your eye on the ball when the only penalty you can think of is "illegal use of hands".

[denverYooper]

It's hard to keep your eye on the ball when the only penalty you can think of is "illegal use of hands".

Whose hands?

[Bossman641]

http://www.packersnews.com/viewart/2...text|FRONTPAGE

Official #26, the one who fucked up the call, had been deemed inappropriate to do D1 games