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Monday night’s replacement ref defends call, works high school game

Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com

Wayne Elliott has had a wild week. On Monday night, he wore the white hat as the referee of the crew that bungled the Seahawks-Packers game.  On Friday night, Elliott worked a high school football game. In the interim, Elliott says his phone has been ri…

John Radtke, packersgab.com

The nightmare of the replacement referees are over. The NFL needs to thank the Packers for taking one for the team to invoke a sports cliché. Does any fan of the NFL really believe that if this debacle on Monday football didn’t happen we would have the…

Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com

Last Monday’s Seahawks-Packers result sparked the end of the league’s lockout of its officials. Now they can only hope it doesn’t spark a riot. Asked if he feared the Packers losing a game they shouldn’t will impact the playoffs, NFL executive vic…