The NFL did NOT secretly hire black-and-white-striped Foot Locker employees to work as replacement referees despite all the terrible calls recently … this according to the sneaker giant.
Foot Locker just released a statement, saying, “Despite recent allegations, our employees have spent the last few weeks at our stores and not at NFL games.”
It’s all in response to a joke making the rounds on the Internet … that the replacement refs are so bad, they must actually be Foot Locker employees.
In case you live under a rock, the employees at Foot Locker wear a referee outfit as part of their uniform — and they’d probably make better calls too.
–TMZ
