The San Francisco 49ers are better than the Green Bay Packers, but I do not know if they are better by a 62 yard record-tying field goal or if they are eight points better or a whopping two touchdowns and and two two-point conversions better.
I do not know this because the replacement refs are terrible, failing to call false starts, failing to call pass interference, failing to call blocks in the the back (both on Green Bay and on San Francisco), failing to call any penalty on time or with any consistency.
Now, I am not saying the refs won or lost the game for either team, but what I am saying is that the relationship between the NFL front office and its locked out referees has become as toxic and dangerous as the relationship between Gustavo Fring and Walter White and the rest of us are having to deal with an inferior product--yes, football is America's acceptable version of meth--until they work out their labor disagreement or Roger Goodell goes all Pollos Hermanos and slits someone's throat like a chicken to end the work stoppage and usher in a new era of "normalcy."
So in other (more sane) words, Goodell needs the experienced refs because otherwise his product suffers: the games lack rhythm and drag on forever, players are put in harm's way, coaches are left turning blue in the face, and fans are left clueless in a world where logic is a yellow flag floating existentially through the air minutes after the penalty that launched it into the air no longer has any relevance because it happened several plays prior, on another team's possession, perhaps even in another game, in another time zone, maybe not even this decade or on this continent.
I do not know this because the replacement refs are terrible, failing to call false starts, failing to call pass interference, failing to call blocks in the the back (both on Green Bay and on San Francisco), failing to call any penalty on time or with any consistency.
Now, I am not saying the refs won or lost the game for either team, but what I am saying is that the relationship between the NFL front office and its locked out referees has become as toxic and dangerous as the relationship between Gustavo Fring and Walter White and the rest of us are having to deal with an inferior product--yes, football is America's acceptable version of meth--until they work out their labor disagreement or Roger Goodell goes all Pollos Hermanos and slits someone's throat like a chicken to end the work stoppage and usher in a new era of "normalcy."
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| Roger Gooddell threatening the referees. |
