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Originally Posted by rtfgnow
NFL refs are not 99% perfect, but I can give you three reasons.
1. The FRC game changes each year. For the most part, football hasn't changed in the last half century (some small changes but not as big as a new game each year)
2. FRC refs are volunteers and are trained on site, NFL officials are unionized workers with extensive training and experience.
3. NFL stops game play many time during the game for refs to review and discuss the game, FRC refs do not get a mid-match timeout and cannot review tapes.
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Not only that, but NFL referees get paid a lot of money to do what they do and if they make bad calls not only do they risk getting fired, but thousands of football fans bash them. FRC refs do this out of the goodness of their hearts and their love of FIRST. They could be doing anything with their weekend, but instead they choose to come and support FIRST. They try their best and instead of complaining, everyone should either go be a ref and do better than the current ones or try to be patient because it's week one.