Enough is enough

If you are anything like me, you love football. You love the fans, the teams and most importantly the anticipation on Sunday afternoon right before kickoff.

But lately there have been some hiccups.

Let’s take a look back at the long and strenuous negotiations of the at this point last year between the players and the NFL. This battle threatened the entire 2011 season and caused the fans (like me) to become far too familiar with revenue splits and stadium credits. I think I can speak for most NFL fans that when both sides reached an agreement with a mere two weeks before the regular season.

Are you ready for some football, I sure was!

Not so fast…It is that time of year, what I like to refer to is Lockout season. The NHL is locked out and so are the NFL referees, which will surly impact the game experience.

The referees have reached an impasse and their CBA expired at the end of last season and both sides have been in talks since last October.  But talks have broken down and the NFL announced on  earlier in the season that they will be hiring “replacement referees” just in case no agreement is reached before the start of the season.  

Well here we are in beginning of week 3 and still no agreement. That being said, you may all be aware of the final play of the Seahawks and Packers game from Monday night, which was said to be the worst of the worst of the countless bullsh**  calls in just three week of the regular season

The Hail Mary pass was caught, but was believed to be an interception, despite being ruled the winning touchdown.  The play has been creatively named “Fail Mary” and "The Inaccurate Reception." But my favorite is “Seattle Screwjob”

I would be amiss if I did not mention my home team of New England, and the bogus call that was made at the end of the game. Raves kicker, Justin Tucker, made the game winning field goal on Sunday night, or so he thought. What it looked like from my seat, was that it hooked right and went over the uprights. But the refs rule sin a field goal and the Raves won by 2 pts.

In week there, on coach’s challenges, 80% of the ref’s calls were overturned. We saw tha most penalty first down in NFL history and we saw at least one game that was decided by clearly bad calls.

Here is my thing, the NFL’s experiment with these replacement refs is no longer funny or working. Every time I watch a game, I feel like I am in a bad episode of Punk’d.  While there were some laughable calls in the preseason, we are in the regular season now and it’s time to let the big boys do their job.

They simply are not qualified to do their job. It’s like putting a second year med student in the position of doctor, they know the basics, but they are out of their element. This cannot be truer when you consider the report from the Lingerie Football league saying that several of the replacement refs, who are now in the NFL, were fired because they were “incompetent."

But I fell like I have to remind the refs that this  is not an episode of Punk’d. This is a million dollar a year industry and the Mr. Commissioner owes it to the fans to get down business with these refs. The longer they wait the more and more fans they will lose. Who do they think makes up the Million dollar industry?

This is enough, this can’t continue and the fans should not put up with it. We have to take it upon ourselves to say enough is enough and we have absolutely no desire to watch this circus anymore.

Unfortunately, the damage is done! Let’s end this shameful lockout before this season is ruled “bogus”

NFL fans we have officially been Punk’d 

Photo credits to Google images.