NFL Playoff Thread

Well that explains it then. Thanks.

 

Yeah, 40 years around it, and that was about three times more than I'd ever thought about the officials themselves.

 

I know NFL and college teams scout the refs for things like most likely to throw a flag late or won't make the big call.

 

Bookies and gamblers too.

 

This ...

When Pioli took over the Chiefs, he seemed determined to eliminate the chance of a competitor spying on his team. This past November, a security guard noticed a sedan stopped on Lancer Lane, a public road that runs adjacent to the Chiefs’ practice fields, as the team’s morning session was beginning. The driver took a photograph on his cell phone, and the guard ran toward him, standing there until the man deleted the picture. As the guard returned to his post, he told a Star reporter that, if the man hadn’t erased the photo, the guard would’ve confiscated the phone.

The fuck? Why did that guy erase the picture? Fuck Scott Pioli and his rent-a-cops.

That is a strange, strange organization. And another line into the weirdness that is the Patriots.

 

It'd help if the NFL paid these refs more. The stress of having to have an everyday job probably occasionally affects their work ability. I say pay them the NFL minimum.

 

affects or effects? I'm confused.

 

Well, when Pioli eventually gets canned, he'll have a great career ahead of him as a newspaper executive.

And in all seriousness, I don't see how the hell firing maintainence workers and PR people is going to help the football team go to the Super Bowl. Stupid shit.

And if I were that guy with the cell phone, I would have told the guard that if touched me, he and the Chiefs would be subject to an extremely large lawsuit.

 

As someone said in the comments, it would be fitting if Pioli soon found himself under surveillance by the authorities. All of these Parcells/Belichick apostles need to embrace the understanding that their shit isn't automatically going to work anyplace else, as it's being lorded over by someone who isn't half as sharp as those two.

I remember reading the SI profile on Pioli a year ago or so. Recall his setting the conditions that the writer was forbidden from contacting his friends or family members back in New York. He makes Carl Peterson look like a sweet guy.

 

That story has almost 500 comments. One commenter says when he tried to post the link on the fan board on the Chiefs' website, it was taken down immediately and he was banned.

In a town like KC that likes to think of the Chiefs as their local institution, that story is going to be a big problem.

 

Problem is that right now you are getting very educated/highly compensated professionals as refs and the opportunity cost to employ them full-time is going to be very high. Plus I heard, what does a ref do for the rest of the week?

 

Good point, but is affects right there? Or is it effects?