NFL Referees Association

Yeah.

Now, their PA, or RA I think it's called, NFLRA they are appealing the decision so we'll see how far that goes because I don't know what the appeal process is for a referee after they've been suspended

yeah and they say that it doesn't it doesn't match past precedent there's a whole website that will tell you about referee suspensions and it's mostly for kind of blowing the calls on the field or blowing timeouts or something like that

Well, in this case, they blew their stacks and said inappropriate things.

And that one I understand.

I don't think the NFL Referees Association could argue that at all.

But it's the Jeff Seaman situation to me that is far more interesting.

Because if merely swearing at a player gets you a two-game suspension...

Uh, so check that out.

Meanwhile, the NFL Referees Association yesterday said it's gonna challenge the severity of the suspensions of the two officials for unprofessional conduct, which the officials', uh, union maintains went beyond appropriate punishment.

We touched on this yesterday, just taking a look at some of the things going on around the NFL.

And we talked about you had one official throwing expletives at, at, uh, at, uh, what's it, Trey McBride.

But, uh, the league, the NFL, on Monday, you probably heard by now, the NFL suspended a line judge for two games and a referee for one game for basically engaging with players and talking back to them, I guess, for lack of a better phrase.

Uh, the NFL Referees Association, I guess they have that, they have an executive director, his name's Scott Green, and he said in a statement, "NFL officials have a responsibility to conduct themselves professionally on the field, and the actions in these incidents fell short of that stanford- standard.

Accountability matters, but that should not result in discipline that is excessive or inconsistent with established precedent." End of quote.

Uh, the Referees Association said yesterday that it will challenge the severity of the suspensions of the two officials from professional conduct, which the officials union maintains went beyond appropriate punishment.

Wilson was just trying to help him up.

Hill was thinking that Wilson and the Miami dude were getting ready to get into it, and he wanted to separate them and keep them away from one another.

So, and then, uh, the memes and the jokes start coming in that, of course, the NFL Referees Association will challenge the suspensions because never ever have any of these professional officials, besides a pool reporter asking them a couple of questions, had to take, uh, accountability for what they said, did, or called.

So in some ways, I guess NFL refs get their comeuppance, but I would s- I would side with the, these guys have a really hard job, and you rarely see them throw flags penalizing guys for verbally abusing them.

Mm.

The NFL Referees Association, uh, yesterday said it's going to challenge the severity of suspensions of the two officials for unprofessional conduct, which the officials union maintains went beyond appropriate punishment.

Of course, we're talking about, uh, the whole situation with the Arizona Cardinals tight end.

I'm, like, blanking it.