Having replacement officials is like playing in the mud, both teams have the same disadvantages.
Personally, I'd like to see fans with more class.
and they got an additional $25k a year.
16 games a year, 3 hours per game = 48 hours, $25,000/48 = $520.83/hr. Not a bad hourly raise.
> 16 games a year, 3 hours per game = 48 hours, $25,000/48 = $520.83/hr. Not a bad hourly raise.
Kind of a simplistic way to look at things, don't you think?
Do you think the NFL flies them from city to city? Pays for their hotel bill?
Allows them to ref a game without hours and hours of training and preparation?
Also, they don't ref all week, or all the rest of the year.
It's like someone seeing a surveyor pound four stakes in the ground and getting a bill for $1,200 and asking "all that to put in four stakes?"
I think the past few weeks has shown that officiating any professional sport is a demanding and exacting profession, and they deserve to get whatever they can in order to do it.
Do you know the answers to your questions are you just assuming I'm simplistic. If all that is computed in the current salary structure and assuming they would not have any additional expenses then it is in fact a raise of $500 per hour of field work. My guess is the league pays all expenses to get them to the job and for room and board.
> 16 games a year, 3 hours per game = 48 hours, $25,000/48 = $520.83/hr. Not a bad hourly raise.
From Big Ed
Hochuli feels that after 20 years as an NFL referee (including serving as crew chief for two Super Bowls), the "part-time" label should go. Yes, the games are only three hours, but the time he spends on the craft, between studying, traveling, preparation and review, is beyond 40 per week. But he knows by now that refs are never fully appreciated. They don't win games for you in the minds of fans; they only cost you games.
Per the NFL rules.
They are required to be their 2 hrs and 15 min prior to the start of the game and they are required to fill out and file Game reports after the game.
I believe they are still underpaid, overstressed but maybe, just maybe they will be appreciated just a bit more for what they do after the whole replacement issues.B-)
