Okay, I'm a bit amazed at all the caterwauling about the replacement refs in professional football. It absolutely stuns me how the horrific bad calls that the "real" refs made through their years of officiating in the NFL are now suddenly ignored and instead they've become the creme de la creme of refereeing football games. In spite of game-changing wrong calls they made on any given Sunday, Monday, or Thursday games, not to mention the Super Bowl(!). It's absurd. When former Raiders' and Buccaneers' coach Jon Gruden in the most somber of tones decries the "Touchdown" call in Monday Night Football's game as "tragic" for the Packers, I stood there with my jaw-dropped, dumbfounded expression and realized how pompous the NFL icons have become.
Let me tell you what's "tragic": Children with cancer and other fatal diseases, USA soldiers getting killed by the Afghani police they're instructing, our embassies being torched by Jihadists after murdering and violating our ambassador and three others, innocent civilians and children dying from bombs lobbed into Israel by their "neighbors". You get it?
When the union demands exceed what is reasonable – as they so often do in this country nowadays – they should not be rewarded with contracts from businesses. That includes the NFL. Get over yourselves. You're part time employees who officiate a game! A. Game. Greed isn't pretty no matter who's dressed in it.
Unbelievable.
God, sometimes I don't know what to say. I'm sorry for my own wrong perspectives, my own sins, my own "blown calls" in my life. And may your perspective be the one that's most important to me. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
Into the Fire 
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