Should NFL referees be fined for blowing calls?

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Should NFL referees be fined for blowing calls?

| Closed on 10/31/08 at 05:00PM
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41 Fans
49%	a. Yes
51%	b. No

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#1 \| 69 days ago nyrangers (+)	+5 I say no because you have to treat the referreing job as your typical office job. If you screw up, you don't get fined. You just get yelled at and eventually get fired if you screw up too much. I think the same should go for refs- if you keep screwing up and aren't doing a great job overall, you get evaluated then you get the boot By the way, this poll isn't a hint at last night's Chargers @ Broncos game, would it? No
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#1 \| 69 days ago nyrangers (+)	+5 I say no because you have to treat the referreing job as your typical office job. If you screw up, you don't get fined. You just get yelled at and eventually get fired if you screw up too much. I think the same should go for refs- if you keep screwing up and aren't doing a great job overall, you get evaluated then you get the boot By the way, this poll isn't a hint at last night's Chargers @ Broncos game, would it? No
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#2 \| 69 days ago drakehaven (+)	(Edited by drakehaven) +4 The refs are human, and they are entitled to mistakes. I believe this is one the reasons why the use of the Instant Replay came into effect. However, if they refs are consistently making the 'wrong call', I think a suspension, would be enough to keep things 'fair'. After enough suspensions,the ability to call a game should revoked permanently. I have seen too many games 'swayed' by a couple bad decisions. No
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#3 \| 66 days ago Michael G (+)	+3 "Officials are held accountable for their calls. They are graded on every play of every game," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday. "Ed has been an outstanding official for many years, but he will be marked down for this call. Under our evaluation system, an official's grades impact his status for potentially working the playoffs and ultimately whether or not he is retained." No
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#4 \| 64 days ago ShagNasty (+)	+1 Man, if I got docked pay for every time I screwed up at work....well... he should not be fined. No
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#5 \| 64 days ago alsp1958 (+)	+2 Fining officials would set a very dangerous precident. No
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#6 \| 63 days ago derms33 (+)	+5 NO...SHould a player be fined for fumbling...throwing an int? Well yes, but thats a different story! No
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#7 \| 63 days ago Peytonrob (+)	nyrangers wrote: I say no because you have to treat the referreing job as your typical office job. If you screw up, you don't get fined. You just get yelled at and eventually get fired if you screw up too much. I think the same should go for refs- if you keep screwing up and aren't doing a great job overall, you get evaluated then you get the boot By the way, this poll isn't a hint at last night's Chargers @ Broncos game, would it? +4 so PLAYERS are accountable and fined for EVERY HUMAN MISTAKE made.....THIS one call could potentially keep the chargers out of playoffs...that doesnt need something more than saying Ed you f'd up?? This call cost people fantasy points, which usually have office POOLS for MONEY. it effected a Teams record. A team as a whole. A group of fans. this is NOTHING comparable to an office job. Let's put it in a differant light. your an accountant. You LOSE your company millions of dollars on a MISTAKE. DO you REALLY think youd still have a job? He cost a TEAM a 1/16 of their "money" (record) you lose 1/16 of a companys money see if you dont get sued..... Should it be extremely heavy? no something to remind him next time hes making calls. someone telling you "hey ED you've never made a mistake its ok but im gonna have to grade you down" is just not enough. how can anybody NOT agree. Yes
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#8 \| 63 days ago nyrangers (+)	Peytonrob wrote: so PLAYERS are accountable and fined for EVERY HUMAN MISTAKE made.....THIS one call could potentially keep the chargers out of playoffs...that doesnt need something more than saying Ed you f'd up?? This call cost people fantasy points, which usually have office POOLS for MONEY. it effected a Teams record. A team as a whole. A group of fans. this is NOTHING comparable to an office job. Let's put it in a differant light. your an accountant. You LOSE your company millions of dollars on a MISTAKE. DO you REALLY think youd still have a job? He cost a TEAM a 1/16 of their "money" (record) you lose 1/16 of a companys money see if you dont get sued..... Should it be extremely heavy? no something to remind him next time hes making calls. someone telling you "hey ED you've never made a mistake its ok but im gonna have to grade you down" is just not enough. how can anybody NOT agree. +3 So you agree that there should be no fine, but the only possibility is a lay-off or suspension? "This call cost people fantasy points, which usually have office POOLS for MONEY" So? What people do with their money on their own time is there buisness. Are you suggesting that whoever blows calls OWES people that BET on the game money? (By the way, you wouldn't happen to be one of those people, would you?) As you suggest, let's put it in a different light. If someone in any buisness screws up and their stock drops, does that company now owe each stockholder money? Yea, so what- it was a blown call. People are human. They make human mistakes. Deal with it. No
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#9 \| 62 days ago Peytonrob (+)	nyrangers wrote: So you agree that there should be no fine, but the only possibility is a lay-off or suspension? "This call cost people fantasy points, which usually have office POOLS for MONEY" So? What people do with their money on their own time is there buisness. Are you suggesting that whoever blows calls OWES people that BET on the game money? (By the way, you wouldn't happen to be one of those people, would you?) As you suggest, let's put it in a different light. If someone in any buisness screws up and their stock drops, does that company now owe each stockholder money? Yea, so what- it was a blown call. People are human. They make human mistakes. Deal with it. +1 No there POSSIBLY should be a small fine, that's why my answer was yes. Actually it didn't cost me fantasy points, or money it actually helped me. what I was doing, before you picked my words to sound the way you wanted, was naming off why bad calls are BIGGER than saying ed you messed up. "What people do with their money on their own time is there business" ~ I never said it wasn't....so whats the point? "you suggesting that whoever blows calls OWES people that BET on the game money?" ~ not at all! Never said that once again twisting it so that you can argue with someone. (I wanna go on record that you had NO IDEA what i was talking about (obviously) and shouldn't go thinking someones suggesting something without KNOWING. You added more about something I NEVER said than anything else in your response to do with what i ACTUALLY said. Kinda rude. I realize he makes mistakes. BUT should it come down to that ONE game deciding a wild card spot do you truly think "MARKING HIM DOWN" is A going to keep him from reffing the playoffs? Especially with his OUTSTANDING job he's done? B think that telling him hey you called this wrong is enough? that is what I was talking about sorry you got caught in the schematics of everything else Yes
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#10 \| 62 days ago seal_warrior1 (+)	+2 Heck, if they fined for every bad call, we'd have no referees, and they'd be paying to ref..hummm but seriously.. that's why we have the instant replay from about 2706 different angles.. refs are human they make mistakes too. THAT'S why they should add the instant replay to MLB, the big babies, and not just for home runs. No
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#11 \| 62 days ago Peytonrob (+)	seal_warrior1 wrote: Heck, if they fined for every bad call, we'd have no referees, and they'd be paying to ref..hummm but seriously.. that's why we have the instant replay from about 2706 different angles.. refs are human they make mistakes too. THAT'S why they should add the instant replay to MLB, the big babies, and not just for home runs. +1 Now im not saying EVERY call but one of the caliber of the San Diego game....yeah. Other than that i say NO penalty at ALL including no mark down. Yes
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#12 \| 62 days ago Peytonrob (+)	+1 in all honesty this isnt a "office" job this is a FOOTBALL job and in Football you do your job right or the second string comes in and you get waived and LOSE YOUR MONEY. Yes
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#13 \| 62 days ago nyrangers (+)	+1 Whoa Rob, first off, relax dude, I'm not attacking you or anything... When I said "What people do in their own time is their buisness", I was replying to your argument that the bad call may have cost fantasy footballers money. These wagers are not official, and therefore the league is in no way responsible for any of those controversies, nor should they even CARE what happens in those bets. Therefore I find that argument entirely irrelevant. "not at all! Never said that once again twisting it so that you can argue with someone." I never claimed that's what you thought; I only said that because it seemed like your chain of thought, according to your standpoint---hence, the question mark at the end of that statement. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you were arguing there. This argument will never go anywhere until you realize that mistakes happen all the time. You act as if this is the only time a poor game-deciding call was made in football, or all of sports for that matter. No
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#14 \| 62 days ago heckler (+)	+1 I just think the Chargers should have stopped the two pt conversion. I think Shannahan went for two cause he knew it was a bad call and wanted to give the Chargers a chance to win! Either that or he's crazy! Yes
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