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Aren't they making 150K-200K already? Despite what some would say, this really IS their full time job. What else do you call something that provides 99% of your net income? What would we have them do during the off-season anyway? Watch training videos? Engage in health & nutrition regimens? Most refs are just messing around with parenting, PTA meetings, football camps, and start-up businesses until the season starts. A "full-time" designation would do little to improve the on field quality. All it would do is remove the "real cause" everyone spouts for their teams woes season after season. Refs are humans. Humans make mistakes. You get some calls, you don't some calls. They really DO even out over a few seasons. Just live with it, move on.
Pdangle - Sorry, but you really don't know a damn thing about the refs. Most of them are not doing anything of the sort. Most of the referees are successful businessmen and several of them are lawyers who make quite a bit of money. Your attempt to make them into some kind of "Weekend Warrior" is pretty pathetic.
The reason that people want them to become full-time is so that they can be held to stricter standards regarding their physical fitness, including eye-sight. Not only that, it's so they can review film on a regular basis so they can actually see what they missed. Just like the NFL players do..So they can improve. What you clearly have no concept of is that the quality of the referees has gone down significantly over the past decade and this was on display for everyone to see during the Steelers/Seahawks SB. Hell, that whole series of play-offs was marred by numerous bad calls in just about every game. And I am not talking about minor things. I am talking about MAJOR, game changing calls..