While Oakland University is home to many football fans, we don’t have our own team. This forces us to seek out other means of watching football and thus we watch NFL games.

But the NFL has recently run into a little argument with their normal referees, who have gone on strike.

This is not working out. The NFL and the referees need to come to an agreement. Do you need specific reasons? OK, here’s the Top 10 Reasons Why These Scab Referees Need to Go:

10. Because three weeks ago, they were all high school gym teachers.

9. Because the regular refs are great at screwing over the Lions as it is.

8. Because bad calls are ruining mine and the referees’ fantasy leagues. Oh, wait…

7. Because I’m pretty sure these are just Foot Locker employees with whistles.

6. Because the refs keep calling “traveling” on the wide receivers.

5. Because we just really miss Ed Hochuli and his MASSIVE biceps. (Go Google him. Now.)

4. Because John Madden could ref “circles” around these guys. Boom. Brett Favre.

3. Because if (when) Green Bay loses, I want it to be because of their sincere lack of skill, not because of the referees.

2. Because the refs are complaining about an alarming lack of home runs.

1. Because, and this is a true story, some of these refs were fired from the Lingerie Football League for incompetence. They don’t know the difference between ‘ump-ing’ and …. you get it.