Quote Originally Posted by ActualSpamBot View Post
The unfairness comes from the fact that as much as people like to bitch about the regular refs, they are actually pretty consistent and have high degrees of accuracy in their calls. These jokers they've trotted out are wildly inconsistent and don't call the game with nearly the same reliability as the regulars.
Perhaps. But the Arizona gaffes aside, I didn't see any huge drop off in terms of quality.

I'm waiting this one out to see if it's really that much of an impact. If this lock out means that 2-3 seasons down the road we have improved quality, I'm ok with a little growing pains.