For perhaps the first time ever the NFL officials received a standing ovation. At last night's Baltimore Ravens-Cleveland Browns game the fans showed their appreciation. It was the first game of the 2012 season for the real officials. Yes, they're finally back. It must have been a new sensation for those fellas in stripes to be greeted so warmly. Everybody involved with the NFL should be ecstatic about this return. Every fan should be ecstatic. It's a very good thing.
I will never understand labor negotiations in professional sports. When they get tense and last way too long, no one wins. The player lockout last year was ridiculous. Since it severely impacted the games, the officials lockout this year was even worse. They finally found some agreeable middle ground when they are forced to. Why can't they find it when they should. The NFL made the idiotic mistake of saying that the replacement officials would be fine. When those officials were obviously far worse than fine the NFL maintained their "everything is fine" stance. I'm not sure who they thought they were fooling. About thirty years ago the NFL thought that they could get by with replacement players. That was an even worse joke. They didn't learn then that there is no simply replacing the people on the field of an NFL game. I just don't understand how an organization that does so many things incredibly right can get some things so incredibly wrong. It should not have gotten this bad, Roger.
Welcome back, Officials. You've been greatly missed.
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