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To: arno who wrote (108)	9/10/2001 8:40:41 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 234

Well....yeah they've done ok. I guess at the moment (until convinced otherwise) I think NFL refs should be full time. We're talking about a multi billion dollar industry that wants to go cheap on a portion of the game that could determine the outcome of a season. While I believe the replacements did an ok job yesterday I don't even want to give a team the chance to point to one bad call as the reason they missed the playoffs. Now this can happen with regular officials too but if it happens with these guys its going to be major news. The players union has also brought up a point that the replacements may lead to player injury because they miss some calls such as chop blocks. I guess I don't buy into that too much because if the players union was really concerned about players health astro-turf would have been gone long ago. That said - I think it's time to pony up the doh and bring the real zebras back.

To: arno who wrote (108)	9/17/2001 6:29:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 234

I think they blew a replay call in KC/Oakland game. I think the officals blew a couple of pass interference calls in the Miami - Tennesee game. On one of them the reciver was grabbing and moving Patrick Surtain's head, but they still called defensive interference. What do you need to get interference on the reciever? Have him pull a weapon? Still it didn't effect the outcome of the game and I've heard other people say the in most games the offciating was better then expected. Tim