Billy Gil

But,

Lots of excuses.

Lots of excuses going on there.

There's that upcoming CBA.

There's also thrown in there in the CBA.

They're like, you know what?

Maybe we want to come up with these performance-based reviews of officials at the end of the season where we can give them bonuses based...

on their performance or maybe if they're bad officials, they shouldn't be getting some of these primetime games just because of seniority.

And it's like, well, they probably shouldn't have been doing that anyways.

Like you should probably have like the best officials calling these games, not based on, well, this official's been here longer.

So like, ah, let's give it to Ed.

You know what I think the funny part about this story too is, like when you take it to the count, like when they want them to go to additional training, I was viewing it like traffic school, essentially, right?

Like, oh, well, you didn't follow that rule, so you got to go to traffic school for four hours and kind of learn the lesson.

a lot of these officials, not a lot of them, all of them, essentially, this is just kind of like a side job for them.

Like they have their full-time jobs.

A lot of them are like lawyers.

They have like actual respectable jobs.

And then on weekends, they just decide, you know what?

I'm going to fly to Cincinnati and I'm going to be the referee or I'm going to be the line judge in the Bengals game.

And I'm going to put on my zebra costume and then