NFL head of officiating partying with Jerry Jones son last night?

[Captain Morgan]

Executives from several NFL clubs expressed extreme disappointment and anger at a TMZ video that appears to show the league's head of officiating, Dean Blandino, out for a night of partying in Los Angeles with Cowboys EVP and son of owner Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones.

 

Blandino appears to be among a group of males and females captured stepping off the Jones' Cowboys-themed party bus and toward a club where paparazzi awaited outside. The Cowboys hold training camp in temperate Oxnard, Calif., and it is not unusual for team officials to take the bus to LA for dinner, etc.

 

The reactions to the video by officials of several teams -- none of whom I spoke to are a natural rival of the Cowboys or had any personal issues with Jones or Blandino -- as well as former high-ranking team officials, were quite visceral. Several expressed concern at the appearance of potential competitive balance issues, given the sensitive nature of Blandino's role and his authority on matters of officiating and interpretation.

CBSSports.com reached out to Blandino for comment, but he has not responded.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/jason-la-canfora/24652025/is-this-the-nfl-ref-czar-on-cowboys-party-bus-irate-nfl-execs-say-yes

 

 

we're doomed.

 

 

Doomed, I say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PandaPancake]

Only doomed if this didn't come out.

[Johnny Rockets]

This all happened back in the summer. 

 

 

Probably recirculating on social media due to yesterday's "no call". 

[PhillyB]

i guess stephen must've picked up the check

[Darth Biscuit]

This all happened back in the summer. 

 

 

See, they been planning this poo since then.

[Captain Morgan]

This all happened back in the summer. 

 

 

Probably recirculating on social media due to yesterday's "no call". 

 

 

 

good point....the time stamp is August.....someone put it back to get hits.

[Jangler]

we are due for an NFL screw...it's been a year.

[0115]

my thought was car vs sea would have drawn a bigger market and then came the controversial call

[Mother Grabber]

[h0llywood]

I believe in these controversies only to a point.

 

While that flag was picked up, both teams still had to play the rest of the game.

 

Similar to the "fixing" of basketball games by officials in the NBA, the players still have to hit and miss their shots.

[CelibatePimp]

I posted this in the game thread yesterday. It happened in August.

In any case I doubt any one game comes down to a missed call

[Semaj]

He should be fired. That is completely unprofessional and a huge conflict of interest. Unbelievable. But with the worthless commissioner, it's likely nothing will happen, unless he's caught on camera dragging one of those girls out of an elevator. We know how the commissioner always acts so fast in those situations.

[PanthersATL]

I recall an old Minnesota Vikings coaches show with Bud Grant (I said it was old), where Bud was reviewing the previous day's game where an official called a touchdown incorrectly for the other team and there was a big stink about the referee's mistake.  (it wasn't a touchdown, as Bud pointed out on the Vikings' version of the tape shown on the show).  

 

He said, "yup, that shouldn't have been a touchdown.  Now look at this..."

 

And he showed the Vikings' tape of an earlier Vikings touchdown in the same game.  The tape showed that too was not supposed to be a touchdown..... but nobody noticed.

 

Bud said, "so let's take away both of those touchdowns because the referees got 'em wrong.  Guess what?  We still lost the game.  Those touchdown calls didn't affect the rest of the game"

 

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Did this really happen, or is my memory really bad?  Probably more the latter than the former.  Interesting story if it is true.

[FuFuLamePoo]

do you guys think the illuminati is real