Quoted from Box A Rox

If we replaced the NFL broadcasters, players or officials, the game would suffer.  If the entire NFL owners were
replaced with other owners, no one would notice.  The game would be exactly the same.  They are the one
replaceable element in the game.

Wrong...you would be in the same exact position as you are now. Replacing a bunch of tigers with another group of tigers and expecting a different result is lunacy. There is a certain personality trait that makes these sports team owners alike. Look across the sports world, EVERY major sport has had at least one work stoppage in the past 10 years. But go ahead and live in your Nirvana fantasy world..because that's exactly what it is

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If anything, the start of this year's NFL season is turning into an Exhibit A for what can happen when
management decides to go with less experienced, less trained, less professional employees during a
labor dispute. Admittedly, I'm not aware of where things stand with current negotiations, but all you
have to do is listen to sports radio to realize how out of control things are getting. Calls are mounting
to boycott games, to not attend stadiums or refuse to watch the games on TV. It's not only that NFL's
"product" has become a laughing-stock and its brand is fast eroding, but more importantly players are
increasingly exposed to serious harm and injury. Something horrific is likely to happen, it's just a
matter of time.

NFL players’ union asks owners to end lockout of officials

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....857f6a7bd_story.html

Yawn.... this is nothing more than media driven hysteria. As much as the media hopes that fans will stay away, they won't...
This from former NFL player Hugh Douglas:
"all these people bitching, guess what they will be doing Thursday night?  Watching football.  Then on Saturday, then on Sunday.  It is not such an issue as they are posturing about."

And he's right....

The Green Bay Packers are much as America's team as the Cowboys were in the 1990's.
If that call had gone in Green Bays favor with it's QB throwing a hail mary, it would have been nothing more than a blip on Sportscenter...that's the truth.

Quoted from 55tbird

Yawn.... this is nothing more than media driven hysteria. As much as the media hopes that fans will stay away, they won't...
This from former NFL player Hugh Douglas:
"all these people bitching, guess what they will be doing Thursday night?  Watching football.  Then on Saturday, then on Sunday.  It is not such an issue as they are posturing about."

And he's right....

The Green Bay Packers are much as America's team as the Cowboys were in the 1990's.
If that call had gone in Green Bays favor with it's QB throwing a hail mary, it would have been nothing more than a blip on Sportscenter...that's the truth.

55tbird, I agree totally. Might I also add that I don't see any teams who have won because of disputed calls, offering to forfeit those victories.

I would also like to state that as a youngster, I was as rabid a fan of the National Football League as anyone. My interest and enthusiasm has waned exponentially with the growth (read media hype) of the sport. These days I only have a passing interest.

It's a SPORT for God's sake!!!

It's FOOTBALL!!!

While the country is going to sh!t.......football is the story of the day!!!

The NFL has been ridiculous in their treatment of the refs for years. This is a sport measured in economic impact at near a trillion dollars, in tv, tickets, gambling, merchandise, fantasy and etc... and the league is being hard line over 3-4 million dollars? Hell they could fix all of this for less money than they pay a bumb like Michalel Vick. Sometimes the owners are right, and sometimes a union is right, and normally the real answer is down the middle. The owners should give 3/4 of what the refs ask for, lock them up for a decade and enjoy the billions in profits. The officiating this year has been shameful and has showed the owners and their player safety fines to be hypocrites at best. Time to save face, get the NFL family back together and get this deal done.