If they don’t take this deal, which will give them a 50% raise this season and a 100% raise in the fourth year, the NFL is expected to play the season with the replacement officials.
Count on them taking it.
How could they not? As one league insider noted, the stock market is down nearly 700 points and the officials are squawking about a 50% increase for a second job?
Tom Condon, chief negotiator for the union, told USA TODAY Monday night that the report was erroneous and no deal was in place.