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New 8 year deal reached with Referees

There will be more links to come as they hopefully become available.

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Can confirm per source that regular refs will work Thu night game and be on field for full Sunday slate.

Hearing 8-year deal between refs and NFL.

Refs have to ratify in-person and likely attend mini clinic to refresh rules.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Record_Ta...41630491516930

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The NFL will have Hochuli to thank for the training sessions the NFL has not been able to run because he has run some of his own. Every Tuesday night, the veteran official with the Popeye arms has been holding rules-related conference calls with all officials. Average attendance on the calls, I'm told, is between 90 and 110 per week. Hochuli, the officiating sources says, gives all officials a test each week, similar to one they might get from the NFL during a regular week of preparations, and then goes over the results on the phone with the officials. "That's one of the reasons why the officials will be up to date and ready to go,'' the officiating source said. "Ed grabbed the bull by the horns and made sure that whenever this thing ended, the regular officials would be ready to go back to work immediately.''

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...eal/index.html

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The NBC-owned webiste cites Jim Daopoulos, a longtime NFL official and supervisor of officials who joined NBC as an analyst this season, as saying the league and the NFL Referees' Assn. have signed a new deal.

The report says a crew is being assembled to work Thursday night's game between the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens and on Friday the regular officials will travel to Dallas to retrieve their equipment and receive their game assignments for Sunday and Monday. The same crews as last season will be working together this season.

According to a report, the pension issue was resolved with the existing defined-benefit plan remaining in place for five years until the officials are rolled over into a 401(k) plan.

Ending a lockout that lasted nearly four months --and three weeks of pins-and-needles tension with replacements -- the NFL on Wednesday night reached a labor agreement with its officials, presumably in time for the regular crews to work this weekend’s games.

The crisis reached a flashpoint Monday night, when the Green Bay Packers were denied a victory against the Seahawks in Seattle on the basis of a wrong call on a Hail Mary pass.

That turned up the heat on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and team owners to find a solution that largely concerned whether the officials could maintain their defined-benefit pension plans.

During the first three weeks of the regular season, the league came under heavy criticism from fans, players, and even normally friendly broadcast partners.

“I hope it happens soon,” St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford said Wednesday. “I just don’t think it’s fair to the fans, I don’t think it’s fair to us as players to go out there and have to deal with that week in and week out.”

The replacement officials were mostly culled from the small college, junior college and high school ranks. Unlike when replacements were used for Week 1 of the regular season in 2001, major college officials watched this labor fight from the sidelines, in support of their NFL officiating brethren.

After news broke early Wednesday that a deal was at hand, Scott Green, a negotiator for the NFL Referees Assn., informed the officials in an email that the suggestion was premature and that talks were still underway.

Goodell participated in the negotiations, which took place over four days last week, during the weekend, as well as marathon sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. A federal mediator also assisted in the talks.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...,7504367.story

Hochuli was at Chiefs TC a couple of years ago and he is just as big in person.

Count the last three weeks as preseason and let the games begin.

But seriously, thank you.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

We want: Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!Replacement Refs!

I hate how selfish the real refs are. part of this whole strike issue is because they didn't want more refs? **** you.

I wonder how long until they change the simultaneous possession rule?

One hand is possession and simultaneous means both people have the same thing at the same time.

That replacement ref made the right call, on a ruling written by an association he wasn't even a part of, and he's the scapegoat.

I thought the NFL came out with a statement saying they supported the officiating during the ending of that MNF game? Why did they qiuckly get a deal done 2 days later with the real refs?

seriously though, about damn time

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Originally Posted by BloodBrother (Post 3131036)

Because for the first time, this was going to hit their pockets. People might finally tune out because they had it with these replacement refs.

I'm definitely in the minority here but I don't support the real refs and I think if you guys understood the issue more than you wouldn't either.

They get paid 150,000 dollars for working 16 4 hour games and they feel they are entitled to more? They aren't the ones responsible for the increase in popularity of the NFL.

Next they don't want more refs because they don't want to be held accountable for doing a poor job?

The NFL ref union also once tried to get as much money as the NBA and MLB refs/umpires for working a fraction of the amount of games. The refs union is stupid but since no one understands the issues they just assume Goodell and the NFL are dumb and should just give them whatever they want.

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Originally Posted by soybean (Post 3131045)

I couldn't agree more. The NFLRA and the Refs were asking for more than they deserved but the NFL eventually caved so it's whatever now.

I do feel bad for the replacement refs though. Sure they messed up a lot of calls, but none of this was their doing. They showed up, trained, and did the job to the best of their ability and they got **** on for it. Some of it was deserved, but the real people who deserved blame (the refs, NFLRA, and the NFL/Owners themselves) were the real problem.

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Originally Posted by vidae (Post 3131047)

I do feel bad for the replacement refs though. Sure they messed up a lot of calls, but none of this was their doing. They showed up, trained, and did the job to the best of their ability and they got **** on for it. Some of it was deserved, but the real people who deserved blame (the refs, NFLRA, and the NFL/Owners themselves) were the real problem.

I can agree with this. The replacements referees didn't do a good job at all, but at the same time they did try to do the best they could. That's no reason to keep them around, but it did make me respect the refereeing position a bit more.

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Originally Posted by soybean (Post 3131045)

The NFL tried to get rid of their pensions and wanted them to be full time and lose their other job among other things. BTW they agreed to add more refs. Bottom line they should their worth.

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Originally Posted by vidae (Post 3131047)

definitely. the replacement refs were put into an impossible situation.

It was like essentially promoting an intern to a management/supervisor-role. They were bound to make mistakes and it didn't help that the players and coaches tried to punk them just because they were new.

It's ok to be mad at them or happy the real refs are back because essentially we all are the consumers and deserve the best product available but like you said, they did the best they could.

anyways, good football is back.

I think the replacement refs did a pretty good job, as someone who has reffed this sport along with several others, this is hands down the hardest sport to referee that there is and they did a good job overall. They've been the victims of intense scrutiny and for the most part they've got it right or at least not terribly wrong.

Lets also not pretend that we haven't had a comparable call to that GB/Seattle call in each of the last few seasons with the "real refs". They are all human, they all make mistakes but because they are replacement refs the scrutiny and uproar is magnified.

Glad to have the refs back though, I don't think the replacements did a bad job but I also don't think they were as good as the "real" refs who are generally outstanding.

For me the NFL should shoulder the blame for this situation, the integrity of the sport should not have a cost or ever be risked like it was, even if I think it came out fine.

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Originally Posted by BloodBrother (Post 3131036)

The NFL was getting bad press from everywhere. Even national news outlets that don't regularly cover the NFL were talking about this first on their broadcast. The President of the United States of America even chimed in. Really, this is the only way to hit a big corporation in the mouth. They won't budge unless it becomes a PR nightmare. Funny how once the **** hit the fan the deal got done in two days.

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Originally Posted by soybean (Post 3131045)

Yeah, but look at how hard they were to replace. You go down on the field and try to ref a game with players moving at that speed. Its a lot easier watching it on TV. Are you saying their job is easy?

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Originally Posted by wogitalia (Post 3131065)

The problem I had with them wasn't necessarily the calls, because the regular refs get those wrong too. It was that they didn't know the rules. And they didn't know how to handle players a lot of the time. The Ravens/Patriots game the other night was really chippy, Harbaugh gets two extra timeouts and a challenge in the 49ers/Vikings game, I also heard things like block in the back on the kicking team, officials not calling out the number of who was at fault for a penalty, not gathering together to assess a big play, etc.

I can't blame them because they did the best they could. At the same time, and I heard this on Colin Cowherd in the morning in which I surprisingly agree, some of these probably knew they weren't qualified to take these jobs and took them anyways. Yes it's a big chance to get an NFL job and a paycheck for a few weeks, but it's also a big chance to make a fool of yourself.

What we've seen over the last few weeks is a testament to the the fact that although the regular officials aren't rock solid, they do have the experience which is essential at this level.

By the way, if you're the NFL, with all of the talk about wanting to make the game safer, wouldn't you want full time officials? As for the pension plan, I don't see what the problem is with wanting something after you're done. Yes they are part time employees, but they are essential elements to how the game is conducted and we've seen that. A lot of America is moving towards a 401k plan anyways. There are other employees in the NFL that are full time employees and their pension plan (assuming there is one) may or may not be as lucrative as what the officials are asking for, but for me as a fan I see it as what is important to the actual game. If a part time ref gets a better pension plan compared to someone in accounting, well...I mean if that is how it's got to me...that is how it's got to be. We've seen that these guys aren't just easily replaceable as the NFL thought they could be.

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Originally Posted by soybean (Post 3131061)

They did the best they could and they blew. Super glad the unqualified replacements are gone and we can actually play football.

Also enthused that the Packers getting ****** was the final straw.

Packers are clearly America's team. Thanks to them, the real refs are back

everybody praise the Packers right now

And all it took was losing a game.

So no ones going to complain about the refs this week right?