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Visit progressive.com today. back to "hardball." a lot of buzz about that refs' call in last night's game between the packers and the seahawks. >> final play. wilson lob to the end zone. which is fumbled by tate with jennings simultaneous. who was it? who did they give it to? touchdown! >> well, you saw two different calls by the ref. one interception, one touchdown. quite a lot of outrage from people who say the replacement refs should have called that an interception, not the touchdown that won the game for seattle. the replacement refs are filling in during the labor dispute. between the ...

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>> a wisconsin eye doctor -- i love this -- is now offering the refs free lasik surgery to improve their vision, surgery that costs roughly around $3,000. >> i don't get it here too. if you look at the background, some of these replacement refs, they're not qualified to officiate an nfl game. not at the pace of, you know, pro sports compared to collegiate or high school where, you know, some of the guys are, you know, that's what their background is in. but nothing kind of -- i spoke to the moment, one photo, one saying touchdown. ref to the left saying no it's not. that to me says it all abou...

Make it worse. john fox, jack del rio. >> the replacement officials, they're not bad men. they're trying to do the best they can. >> it's not their fault. >> they're in over their heads. >> you talk to everybody, i remember hearing emmitt talk, a pensacola guy, about the difference between college game and the pro game. he said, man, the first time you get hit and you see how fast everything moves, he said it's a whole new world. he said it was mind bending. and so if you're a ref and you're used to seeing things at one speed and you've been doing that for 20 years -- >> very hard. >> -- it's ...

Melissa right here on saturday and sunday on msnbc at 10:00 a.m. it was atrocious. i'm very surprised the replay official didn't overturn it. if the call is in dispute and there isn't clear evidence that it was wrong, they're supposed to let it stand. but to virtually everybody with a television set, especially with a high-def television set, there's no dispute here. it was conclusively incorrect. >> all right. let's dive in. that's nbc's bob costas. it's the disastrous call by replacement refs that game seattle a win over monday night that's fills coaches and players and thousands of footba...