Name: Most NFL Refs Have Other Jobs
Uploaded: 2024-04-03T18:26:36.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Most NFL Refs Have Other Jobs' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Most NFL Refs Have Other Jobs' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-03. Transcript available.

What do you think about this new rule with the hip drop tackle? Do you have any
thoughts on it?
Yeah, I think it is they're trying to make the game safer. But as I've been in
the league,
you know, I've seen it trend to be more of a, you know, a player friendly
league. I think it
takes an incredible amount of discipline and athletic ability as people that
are actually
making those tackles to avoid making that tackle. So I think like when you make
a rule,
like you say, okay, this is the rule. We can't do this no more. But as athletes
being trained
to do a certain way, like for years, but for their whole life to just get
somebody on the
ground any way possible, I think it's challenging, man. And I'm happy for
player safety. But at the
same time, like I know, like I'm from Alabama, like we love football. Right.
However, if you get,
if you run across the middle and somebody take your head off, that's football.
Get back up. Are you
okay? Your chin strap. Okay. What'd you say? How many fingers I got? Yeah. You
know what I'm saying?
Okay. Come on. We about to do it again. You know what I'm saying? Oh, I'm
dropped back in the pocket.
Somebody come slap me up on my head. Like, okay. I want that 15, but like, Hey,
like, okay. I see you
came to play today. Okay. Like it's just, it's the brotherhood and this delight.
Like we warriors out
there, man. Like I said earlier, like, man, we one play away from our career
being done, you know?
So I do respect the NFL making this player safety protocol and like doing
everything they can to
help, you know, prolong people's careers. But I think it's tough. I think it's
tough on the players.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's interesting to see like, and if you keep making things,
like I worry about if
you put so much in the hands of the referees, cause there's a lot of people
start to say that
a lot of speculation you see of people saying that things are fixed or
organized or, you know,
gambling is a lot more just in our everyday life. Now every other commercial is
for it.
You know what I mean? We advertise it. It's like, it's everywhere. So I just
wonder if you,
when you put stuff more in the hands of the referees too, and give them one
more space
where it could be a crucial call in a playoff game next year. Right. Um, what
does that look like?
You know, how, how weird is that? You know, when you, when you look at the
field, uh, you know,
a lot of, a lot of times people just see the two teams, right? Team A, team B,
but bro,
you forget it's another team out there and they got on black and white. Right.
And they're working
together. Like a lot of these, a lot of the referees, like when you get to know
them,
I'm like, bro, like they're insurance agents. They're not even doing this year
round.
You know, you know, this is a hobby for them to make, you know, six, six, six,
six, for real,
make six figures just to, what you doing? Huh? Get outside. You know what I'm
saying?
I have a mixtape one dude, but yeah, I know they had a one video of some guy,
he tapped into the, make the announcement and he played a half a track off of
his mixtape.
And people are like, well, what is even going on here?
It's, it's, it's, it's, you got to think about how tough it is first to make
end game decisions.
Oh, to police grown men that are playing at the fastest level. So I got a lot
of respect for the
referees, but man, like it's a third team, bro. Like you playing against two
teams. You're not just
playing against the other team. You're playing against two teams because you
know, they have
the rules and regulations and this day job, but they can dictate a game. Now,
as, as a leader,
uh, as a coach or, or a person of, of influence, like you can't say we can't,
we're not going to allow
the refs to dictate this game, but they have a certain level of authority that
can't, if they make
a call and they're human, just like us, if it's a mistake, they ain't finna say,
oh my bad. Like
literally look, we write reports out of the game. Coaches are sending it,
sending in like, this was a
penalty. This was a penalty. And you'll get a letter back. This was a penalty.
Sorry. Nuh-uh. I don't know if they said sorry. Like sorry is very polite, but
they'll, they'll
literally be like, this, this, this, yeah. It's like, that was a penalty. All
right. Move to the
next one. Yeah. And he was like, what? We can't get that play back. And it's
crazy. Well, yeah,
there was that famous play in New Orleans that happened too. I think this was
before you were
here. Whenever there was a pass interference against the Rams. It took them
from going to the
Superbowl. I mean, that changes Drew Brees from having a dynasty operation.
Right. And Peyton to things being, you know, he's still, he's still, he's super
challenging.
Yeah. Um, here you go right here. John Hussey is a sales representative. Has
been a referee
for nine seasons. Alex Kemp, an insurance agent, has been a referee for six
seasons. In his
sixth season, Clay Martin is a high school administrator. Dang, he a damn
principal. Yeah. And a basketball
coach. He reading term papers during, on his phone, probably at halftime. Yeah.
Uh, Scott
Scott Novak is in his fifth season as a referee. Brad Rogers is a college
professor. Um, Ron
Torbert's an attorney. Yeah. You already know it. He'd been a referee for 10
seasons. What
is going on? We, we got, uh, we got somebody in aerospace. Uh, uh, Adrian Hill.
He, he in
aerospace. Oh, wow. Engineer. They got, they got different careers, man. Like
that's what I'm
saying. Like I like, our livelihood is on the game. Yeah. It says Craig Warstead
is a drill
rapper, but this is, I mean, this is unbelievable. Oh my goodness. Well, we got,
they got to get
some guys that are just referees. Yeah. No, they're not. Man, that thing, times
have changed, man.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.