Close calls?

After the chaos of Monday night's Packers/Seahawks game, the only thing left is the chaos of various people's takes on real referee's versus replacements. Surprisingly, famous union buster, governor Scott Walker (Asshole, Wisconsin) wants the real, UNION, refs back. It turns out they are better than non-union ones. Imagine that! And Rmoney and Ryan feel the same way despite their love for increased profits via low wages. Sports makes strange bedfellows, I guess.

Football is the number one sport in America. It's a 9-10 BILLION dollar business. I put that in caps for emphasis so I wouldn't have to say: "That's billion with a "B"!" It's a bigger business than teachers or plumbers or snowplow drivers so everyone has to take it seriously, even anti-union, scumbag republicans. "We've got to get those union guys back!"  Never thought I'd hear them say that!

The NFL ref's are locked out. They are not "on strike".  That's an important distinction. They have issues with the league but were willing to work while discussing those issues. The league rejected that, locked them out and sought the services of high school and junior college referee's to break the strike. They didn't do this over a lot of money either. Ref's are about 3 MILLION (with an "M") of that MUCHO BILLIONS  the NFL makes every year. My understanding is the refs want a few more bucks- everyone does. They've already got a pension plan with the league, which is interesting given that they are part-time employees who, work one day a week. I gather that the HUGE issue is that the NFL doesn't want to back that pension. They'd prefer it be a 401k that they don't have to pay off on. Well, well. The republicans want to do that with Social Security. I'm sensing a theme here. With SS, we put actual dollars in a bank of sorts, to take out actual dollars when we're old. Wall Street see's other people's money laying around like that and they foam at the mouth. They, and republicans, think OUR money is better spent in Wall Street casino's because (a) YOU can get really, really richer than SS!!!! (b) If YOUR 401k doesn't do well, tough titties. It COULD have done better than that communist SS would have!

I think replacement refs came up with that idea....

You know, the regular ref's aren't all that, either. These overwhelmed, unprepared guys make us forget that. Oh sure, it's funny when a QB slides for a first down and the ref signals "safe" or "out" or calls traveling on run plays. That's entertainment! But, they get better each week or, at least less sucky. Yep, a bad call cost Green Bay a win this past Monday but, that bad call was inexplicably upheld by booth replay officials who ARE NOT replacement officials. I have no idea what they thought they saw that you, me and the rest of the world didn't. It could have been over-turned. Odd that it wasn't.

The money that the real ref's want is nothing. I think it's the thought that counts with these owners. Just like 4,000 individual millionaires pay no taxes regardless of the Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires or not just like untold huge corporations, 39% or 35% don't mean shit when you pay zero percent no matter what.  Referees are not going to take over the league or command huge salaries like the players do. Neither are teachers or snow-plow drivers. It's just the thought that counts. You got to remind people who owns the team. Who owns the league. Who owns the balls.

Interesting that the Green Bay Packers are owned by the people.... The only major sports franchise owned by...the people.

Well now, maybe we understand that call now?