{"id":4557,"date":"2012-09-27T07:04:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:52:48","slug":"nfl-refs-reach-agreement-on-the-job-thurs-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4557","title":{"rendered":"NFL, Refs Reach Agreement, On The Job Thurs. Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4576\" title=\"NFLreferee\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NFLreferee-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is apologizing to fans for having to use replacement officials during a lockout of regular refs.<\/p>\n<p>The impasse led to three weeks of questionable calls<br \/>\n&#8211; and one that cost the Green Bay Packers a win.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodell made his comments Thursday during a conference call<br \/>\nabout 12 hours after the referees&#8217; union and league agreed on a<br \/>\ntentative deal that will allow the regular officials to return<br \/>\nbeginning with Thursday night&#8217;s Browns-Ravens game.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodell says: &#8220;Something like this, it&#8217;s painful for everybody.<br \/>\nMost importantly, it&#8217;s painful for fans. We&#8217;re sorry to have to put<br \/>\nfans through that.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He added: &#8220;Sometimes you have to go through something like that<br \/>\nin the short term for the right agreement for the long term.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The deal was struck two days after Seattle&#8217;s chaotic last-second<br \/>\nwin over Green Bay in which the replacements missed a call.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is apologizing to fans for having to use replacement officials during a lockout of regular refs. The impasse led to three weeks of questionable calls &#8211; and one that cost the Green Bay Packers a win. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodell made his comments Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}