Ref had ties to Seattle. Worked SEA CARDS game

[Mulli]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...as-ties-to-seattle?module=HP11_headline_stack

The NFL's internal weekly officiating review emphasized this week that "effective immediately, officials will not work NFL team scrimmages during the week." And a reason why is that potential conflicts of interest already exist with replacement officials, some of whom have been employed by teams to officiate regular-season practices in the past.
In particular, one official, former Pac-12 official Jeff Sadorus, who worked the Seattle Seahawks-Arizona Cardinals game last week as a field judge has officiated Seahawks regular-season practices for the past three years -- and therefore received paychecks from the team -- in the past, according to two sources affiliated with the locked out referees.

Wonderful.

 

[az jam]

The replacement refs are a joke. The league doesn't gave a damn. They want to cover up any problems and keep the regular refs locked out until they cave in. Ridiculous.

 

[sportznutt]

Wow.

Which one was he? Did he blow any calls?

 

[Mulli]

Yep. Notice how it was released this morning, and not during the regular news cycle during the week?

 

[Chris_Sanders]

The guy who was supposed to work the Saints game today had posts on his facebook page in Saints gear.

 

[Shane]

Meh. No biggie. Scab refs or reg. refs you can bet they all have their favorite teams. You just have to hope they got some integrity.

 

[Bodha]

Do NOT turn this into some conspiracy theory.

We won. Thats all that matters. Had we lost, you could complain, but we didnt, so obviously he didnt have a strong hand in the game. The only noticeable missed call was that extra timeout, and that was the action of 7 refs, not him alone.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Meh. No biggie. Scab refs or reg. refs you can bet they all have their favorite teams. You just have to hope they got some integrity.

Agreed. Much ado about nothing.

Steve

 

[Mulli]

And Cards won.

 

[Shane]

And Cards won.

Are you mad they won today?

 

[Mulli]

Are you mad they won today?

Haha, no way!

 

[CardsFan88]

It's not always conspiratorial to point these thing out. (not that conspiracies don't happen, they happen all the time, continuously.... it's human nature and happens to play out in courtrooms across America many times every day courts are in session.)

But that said, I don't think refs would really knowingly make the wrong call. But the thing is, on the real subjective stuff, the quick stuff, subconsciously, errors can be made and given to one side when the team that has paid you, or you're a fan of the team, is a game you're reffing.

These refs are so horrible anyways, and none of them should even sniff an NFL football field. I'm still seeing way too many screwups. They're still going to get worked over by the players/coaches as the season goes on. They've been lucky it hasn't been as bad as it could have been, but it's still horrible and every week is an adventure and a timebomb waiting to go off.

What's worse is the media's reaction to it all. They bring up the 4th timeout last week and say....yeah see the real refs do it too. What they fail to mention is that it was years ago, and the refs had played what about 48-64 weeks of football since one of those occurred (whatever is the number doesn't really matter). It happened on the FIRST regular season week the scabs reffed. So yeah, it really is a big deal. It was their first week. Not 1st after multiple years.

But yes, the fact the league has always had a policy to not allow things like this (linkages to teams in some way) to happen in the past, and is making a clear decision in engaging with this charade using the scab refs, means the league completely dropped the ball for finding out about this DURING the season. This should have happened months ago. Amateur hour for Goodell.

On another note, once again the Facebook scourge rears it's head again.