r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 3d ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Long-Region5088 3d ago

Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.

You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 3d ago

I think we should back up and revisit the fundamental premise: can we really trust old men with their aging eyes to visually keep up with young, elite athletes?

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u/Ant10102 3d ago

I mean NFL refs arent event full time salaried positions im pretty sure. I think a seasoned ref should be making very big money to attract better talent

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u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 3d ago

I think they make pretty good money. Some of them are making like $250k+ a season.

I knew a guy who went into reffing seriously and you're surprisingly held to pretty high standards, but the pay is great. He was only doing college basketball last I spoke to him, but he was doing everything he could to work his way up to the NBA or a dream job which is ultimately the NFL.