Replacement refs working in NFL were FIRED from Lingerie Football League: report* - NY Daily News
It's a fukkin 7 on 7 womens league, and they couldn't even call those games right.
Here's some news sure to get pro football fans' panties in an even bigger bunch.
A handful of the scab refs who have marred the NFL season with a series of blown calls are washouts from the Lingerie Football League, the underwear league said.
The bra-and-panty league claimed that a couple crews now working NFL games couldn't hack it on their girly gridiron and were fired, Deadspin first reported on Tuesday.
"Due to several on-field incompetent officiating we chose to part ways with a couple of crews which apparently are now officiating in the NFL," the league said. "We have a lot of respect for our officials but we felt the officiating was not in line with our expectations."
"We have not made public comment to date because we felt it was not our place to do so. However in light of tonight's event, we felt it was only fair that NFL fans knew the truth as to who are officiating these games," the statement said, referring to Monday night's debacle in Seattle.
That game ended with a last-second heave into the endzone that was clearly intercepted by the Packers - despite a blatant Seahawks foul -- but ruled a Seattle touchdown by the bumbling replacement refs.
The LFL didn’t say whether any of their ex-refs were on the field on Monday night.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday that the league will have an explanation for the debacle later in the day.
The horrific call had fed-up NFL fans calling for the league to throw the bums out.
One aggrieved Wisconsin State Senator even posted commissioner Roger Goodell's phone number on Twitter and urged fans to call him and complain.
Founded in 2009, the LFL features scantily-clad vixens --- they wear helmets and shoulder pads but little else - playing 7-on-7 pigskin in small arenas around the U.S. and Canada.
Reports about LFL refs slipping into the big leagues surfaced back in August, Deadspin reported.
Mike Pereira, the NFL's former officiating veep, let it slip that Craig Ochoa, who worked the Hall of Fame Game between the Saints and the Cardinals, earned his stripes umping LFL squads like the Las Vegas Sin and Los Angeles Temptation.
The LFL didn't respond to a comment request from the Daily News.
Football fans mocked the NFL brass for hiring the LFL rejects.
"You'd have to be a real boob to not be abreast of the LFL rules to the point they call you a bust," one Deadspin commenter wrote.
It's a fukkin 7 on 7 womens league, and they couldn't even call those games right.