referee lockout

Late last night, it was revealed that the NFL and the Referees' Association reached a tentative agreement on a new eight-year labor deal, thus ending the Referee Lockout and the usage of replacement officials. How much do you expect the officiating of NFL games to be improved during Week Four - not at all, a little or a lot...

There is a popular theory that a ton of sports fans currently share, and it's really, really bad.

Throughout the course of the NFL preseason, we have seen and heard a ton of criticism for awfully bad calls and non-calls being made by the replacement officials, while the NFL Referees Association remains locked out in their contract negotiations with the league...