{"id":570113,"date":"2026-03-30T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:26:08","slug":"nfl-referees-association-accuses-nfl-of-spreading-false-and-misleading-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570113\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Referees Association accuses NFL of spreading “false and misleading” information"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, multiple reports pushed the NFL\u2019s version<\/a> of the ongoing Collective Bargaining Agreement talks with the NFL Referees Association. The NFLRA has pushed back.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently \u2018league sources\u2019 are continuing to put out false and misleading information instead of wanting to meet at the negotiating table,\u201d the NFL Referees Association said in a Sunday night statement to PFT. \u201cThe bottom line is our officials work for the wealthiest sports league in America, with profits that far exceed any of the others. That\u2019s normally a point of pride for the NFL. However, our officials are substantially undercompensated when compared to baseball and basketball umpires and referees. Our officials also aren\u2019t even provided the health care benefits that those at 345 Park Avenue have.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as performance pay, we had \u2018high-performing officials\u2019 who worked this year\u2019s Championship games and the Super Bowl who were paid less for those games than what they were paid for a regular-season game. That certainly isn\u2019t rewarding performance, as the NFL claims is their goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real goal, in our view, is to win. To get the best possible terms. To get the NFLRA to cave. It worked against the NFLPA in 2011. It failed, ultimately, against the NFLRA in 2012 \u2014 thanks in large part to the Fail Mary.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the NFL continues to lay the foundation for another round of replacement officials, augmented by an expanded replay system that has been far from perfected in its more limited form. On Sunday night, the league pushed to ESPN (of which the NFL owns 10 percent) the notion that, if\/when replacement officials are hired on May 1 in anticipation of a potential lockout, \u201cThe opportunity to reach an agreement with our current union becomes a bigger challenge, just from simple economics<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why? Because the league will want to foist the expenses of its planning for the nuclear option onto the officials? <\/p>\n

If, however, that\u2019s a real deadline, the NFL needs to get the NFLRA to agree to that and to act accordingly. The NFL is a deadline-driven business. If the two sides agree that the deadline isn\u2019t Week 1 but May 1, a deal could be done by May 1.<\/p>\n

If, alternatively, the league is currently huffing and puffing with every intention of blowing the officials\u2019 house down by locking them out until they cry uncle, the NFL plans to play Russian roulette with the integrity of the game.<\/p>\n

Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, multiple reports pushed the NFL\u2019s version of the ongoing Collective Bargaining Agreement talks with the NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-570113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}