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The Lingerie Football League claims it fired one crew of refs now working NFL games. For incompetence.

"The bra-and-panty league said at least one crew of refs now working NFL games couldn't hack it on their all-girl gridiron and were fired."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footb ... z27VhNqSFb

"Due to several on-field occurrences of incompetent officiating, we chose to part ways with a crew which apparently is now officiating in the NFL," Lingerie League commissioner Mitch Mortaza said in a statement.

"We have not made public comment to date because we felt it was not our place to do so. However in light of tonight's event, we felt it was only fair that NFL fans knew the truth as to who are officiating these games," Mortaza said, referring to Monday night's debacle in Seattle.

ESPN opines:

"But the replacement refs have lost control. What the NFL is selling, more than anything else, is a high-quality product. What audiences saw last night at CenturyLink Field, and on "Monday Night Football," was not a high-quality product.

Sunday in the Detroit-Tennessee overtime, officials walked off a penalty all wrong, helping the Titans win. Check the Game Book at 12:18 of overtime -- "personal foul, 27 yards." Differences of opinion about judgment calls are one thing. A personal foul is 15 yards.

Monday night, referee Wayne Elliott points the wrong way, assigning a penalty to wrong team. A drastically bad pass interference call against Green Bay in the fourth quarter bails Seattle out of first-and-25; the play by the defender was perfectly clean. Moments after Green Bay is penalized for doing nothing, on the final snap, Seattle's Golden Tate shoves defensive back Sam Shields to the ground with both hands, yet is not called for pass interference. M.D. Jennings of the Packers clearly intercepts the ball. One official signals touchdown, another signals interception. Then the officials allow a mob scene -- cameramen, players and coaches crowding around.

In some ways the mob scene was the worst. It's not just that the replacement zebras awarded the game to the wrong team, they lost control. If the game is out of control, why should anyone watch?"

The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

I blame the unions.

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Exactly. Sitting at lunch in a sports bar today, watching ESPN on mute re-playing the GB/Seattle ending OVER and OVER again, I came to further realization about how most of this country needs--no, BEGS--that they have these distractions so they can avoid dealing with anything remotely important.

When they had a segment on how that play affected fucking FANTASY FOOTBALL people, the true faggotry really reared its head.

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Exactly. Sitting at lunch in a sports bar today, watching ESPN on mute re-playing the GB/Seattle ending OVER and OVER again, I came to further realization about how most of this country needs--no, BEGS--that they have these distractions so they can avoid dealing with anything remotely important.

When they had a segment on how that play affected fucking FANTASY FOOTBALL people, the true faggotry really reared its head.

Sports, the Kardashians, Snookie, and the Real Houswives of XXXXXX are what really matters.

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What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Exactly. Sitting at lunch in a sports bar today, watching ESPN on mute re-playing the GB/Seattle ending OVER and OVER again, I came to further realization about how most of this country needs--no, BEGS--that they have these distractions so they can avoid dealing with anything remotely important.

When they had a segment on how that play affected fucking FANTASY FOOTBALL people, the true faggotry really reared its head.

So you're upset a sports bar had a sports channel on and that said channel wasn't reporting on the federal reserve?

Jezebel Jones wrote:

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Exactly. Sitting at lunch in a sports bar today, watching ESPN on mute re-playing the GB/Seattle ending OVER and OVER again, I came to further realization about how most of this country needs--no, BEGS--that they have these distractions so they can avoid dealing with anything remotely important.

When they had a segment on how that play affected fucking FANTASY FOOTBALL people, the true faggotry really reared its head.

So you're upset a sports bar had a sports channel on and that said channel wasn't reporting on the federal reserve?

I was at an economists bar and they kept talking about the Fed buying these MBS things every month and it really got boring after a while.

Jezebel Jones wrote:

What a duck says wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Exactly. Sitting at lunch in a sports bar today, watching ESPN on mute re-playing the GB/Seattle ending OVER and OVER again, I came to further realization about how most of this country needs--no, BEGS--that they have these distractions so they can avoid dealing with anything remotely important.

When they had a segment on how that play affected fucking FANTASY FOOTBALL people, the true faggotry really reared its head.

So you're upset a sports bar had a sports channel on and that said channel wasn't reporting on the federal reserve?

Damn Quack

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

That's because this is something that the average person can actually understand.

Nice.

My thing of it was that nothing else was mentioned in the 45 minutes I kept it in the side of my vision. NOTHING. Just bitching and moaning and the same play over and over at different speeds. Twitter posts from angry players.

Better than the fantasy football part was where they had an oddsmaker talking about people losing money on a football game. Oh noez.

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

Here ya go, BB. Paul Ryan compares Obama to Replacement Refs

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... ment-refs/

OBAMA: I Was Down On The Replacement Refs Before It Was Cool
Tony Manfred | Sep. 25, 2012, 1:51 PM | 1,586 | 22


Barack Obama, who is a big sports fan, joined the chorus rooting for an end to NFL referee lockout today.
Nothing too fiery here, but he's keeping his finger on the pulse. Here's what he tweeted at first:
Barack Obama
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@BarackObama
NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon. -bo
25 Sep 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite

A few minutes later, his Twitter team (Obama always uses the "-bo" when he tweets personally) fired off another one linking to a story from last week in the Milwauke Journal Sentinel:
Barack Obama
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@BarackObama
President Obama last week: "Is it just me or do we have to get our regular refs back?" OFA.BO/bWqfT4
25 Sep 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite

Obama is a bigger sports fan than you realized, so it's not surprising that he was on this replacement refs thing before it went mainstream today.
Here more from Obama, via the White House pool report:

Carney noted that the president had discussed the issue last week in an interview with a Cleveland radio station and “as a sports fan he thought it was time to get back to the regular refs. This morning I talked to him about the end of the Packers-Seahawks game and he said that what happened in that game is a perfect example of why both sides need to come together, resolve their differences so that the regular refs can get back on the field and we can start focusing on a game that so many of us love rather than debating whether of not a game is won or lost because of a bad call.

Romney has not commented on replacement refs. Anti-American!

This is much more important -

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/ ... e-down-jo/

Sure it is.

But you gotta somehow compare the situation to replacement refs to stay in this thread.

We had a mention of the Wiemar Republic by a tea-bagger, so I thought that I should be just as much of a wet blanket.

The NFL wants to break the ref union. That gives conservatives hard-ons.

WildGorillaMan wrote:

Batboy2/75 wrote:The Federal Reserve announced they were going all Weimar republic and on the way to making the dollar worthless and no one says a fucking word. However, one blown play in a fucking game involving an oblong ball made of pig skin and people are losing their shit.

That's because this is something that the average person can actually understand.

How 'bout that quantitative easing, bro?

What a duck says wrote:Better than the fantasy football part was where they had an oddsmaker talking about people losing money on a football game. Oh noez.

This is actually the interesting part - a team that is 3.5 point favorites, covering the spread with 8 seconds remaining getting a call against them to swing things the other way. When refs in the NBA were gambling on things, it was harder to notice (unless you live in PDX or Sacramento).

seeahill wrote:"But the replacement refs have lost control. What the NFL is selling, more than anything else, is a high-quality product. What audiences saw last night at CenturyLink Field, and on "Monday Night Football," was not a high-quality product.

No, they are earning a profit. Hardcore fans are going to continue to watch and this "controversy" will draw in far more casual viewers. Come on, when was the last time that the NFL was the top story in the nation after Week 3?

I think it was the first payment on the debt the Seachickens are owed for that stolen superbowl.

I saw on Deadspin the the ref that fucked up the last call of the Seachickens/AssPackers game was deemed not qualified for D1 ball.