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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gwh11" data-source="post: 459971" data-attributes="member: 4910">Really? When would that have been?On August 19, CNN had a Sports Illustrated reporter on, Jon Wertheim, who addressed this issue. No mention then of a demand of $400,000/year. Here's part of what he said, from the transcript: WERTHEIM: The money is very little. The money is about $2.2 million for this year. This is a $9.3 billion industry. They are really going to have replacement refs over a different of $2.2 million? I'm dumbfounded by this. A year ago, we were talking about a player strike and real labor negotiations and splitting a pie. That made sense. This is pocket change. For a sport where the TV is through the roof and all this success and the franchise values are soaring, the NFL's wildly successful, the one issue they have is player health and safety. There's litigation. This is the one issue that could hurt the league. To have anything other than the best, most highly trained, highly regarded officials is just dumbfounding. Obviously,  people can disagree on issues. But if you don't back up your assertions with facts that are verifiable, it looks like you're pulling stuff out of your ****.</blockquote>

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