NFL Avoids Replacement Refs + Other Topics | In Football Today

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The guys cover a lot of NFL-related ground in this blitz.

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0:00.0	all right i have no clue what we're doing i just wanted to tell you that so i'll let the music
0:05.1	kind of figure it out i don't know if it's football hoops or are we doing church rankings who
0:09.7	knows david football live from club russini all right we are not doing that today no club rcini
0:20.6	but some NFL news and then we're going to get into a little
0:25.6	what would you prefer game?
0:27.9	Okay.
0:28.6	All right.
0:29.2	But, Mike, it looks as if we will not have replacement refs when it comes to the NFL
0:34.9	this year.
0:35.7	I saw that.
0:36.4	They came up with a deal.
0:38.0	I think it was 116 to 4.
0:40.8	The NFL will have the real referees out there.
0:44.8	So it had to happen.
0:45.9	It's a seven-year deal.
0:47.4	I mean, I still don't understand why it's this difficult.
0:50.4	The amount of money the NFL is making, the revenues have never been better,
0:54.5	the TV rights,
0:56.0	everyone is scrambling right now in other sports
0:59.2	because they know whenever the NFL does this,
1:02.9	it's going to reshape everything forever.
1:05.3	Just make your refs full time.
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