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Am I the only one who's going to miss them? They were incompetent, but their incompetence wasn't prejudical.
Interesting this thing got settled once Kraft went to NYC and got involved in the negotiations. I suspect what happened more than anything else was Dan Rooney, Kraft and Pat Bowlen all woke up Tuesday morning, looked in the standings and saw their teams are 1-2, and advised Goodell that either the regular officials were getting their jobs back, or he'd be looking for a new one.
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Jerry Richardson probably had something to do with it, too.