National Football League referees are voting on a new collective bargaining agreement with the league, just days after the NFL announced it had found a full replacement roster for the upcoming season, which included an expansion of responsibilities for the eye-in-the-sky official, including penalty calls.
Here are some deal components:
• Six years
Refs get: • Annual salary increases of 6.45 percent • 30 percent increase in playoff fees
League gets: • More training and development time • Performance-based assignments for playoffs • Bonuses now tied to performance • Probationary period extended from three to five years
At present, a one-year rule implemented with the anticipation of replacement refs will remaining in place, allowing a remote NFL command center to overturn "clear and obvious" mistakes made by the officiating crew.
My take: These refs have no leverage. Once the replacement refs were secured and he league expanded use of technology to assist, the deal was done in days. So many are so bad that it's good to see the league stick to its principles and get the concessions that assignments and bonuses should be performance-based, rather than decided on seniority. Let's see if things improve. I can think of an easy way to replace all of them with AI.
THE ASYLUM
NFL refs vote on CBA
National Football League referees are voting on a new collective bargaining agreement with the league, just days after the NFL announced it had found a full replacement roster for the upcoming season, which included an expansion of responsibilities for the eye-in-the-sky official, including penalty calls.
Here are some deal components:
• Six years
Refs get:
• Annual salary increases of 6.45 percent
• 30 percent increase in playoff fees
League gets:
• More training and development time
• Performance-based assignments for playoffs
• Bonuses now tied to performance
• Probationary period extended from three to five years
At present, a one-year rule implemented with the anticipation of replacement refs will remaining in place, allowing a remote NFL command center to overturn "clear and obvious" mistakes made by the officiating crew.
My take: These refs have no leverage. Once the replacement refs were secured and he league expanded use of technology to assist, the deal was done in days. So many are so bad that it's good to see the league stick to its principles and get the concessions that assignments and bonuses should be performance-based, rather than decided on seniority. Let's see if things improve. I can think of an easy way to replace all of them with AI.
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