Sheil Kapadia
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And at first I was like, you know, this is another case of the NFL.
And then I thought about it some more and reading about it some more.
The average NFL official, Lindsay, have you read this?
Are you aware of what the average NFL official makes?
Because I was kind of surprised by this.
This, according to ESPN.com, the average NFL official
makes $385,000 per year.
And the NFL has offered, again, according to this reporting, a deal with annual raises of 6.45%.
I was like, man.
Sounds great.
It doesn't seem to me like the refs are doing that bad.
Now the refs are saying, well, we make less than the NBA and MLB.
I don't know the details in terms of how many games those, you know, those officials.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which sounds great.
Nor do they need to be.
This isn't like the 60s where football players had to go have a job in the offseason because the NFL wasn't paying them enough.
I think you could probably live pretty comfortably on $385,000 per year there.