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What's unfortunate about the Luckett incident is from the article I read that year in Referee it appeared as though the NFL wouldn't back him on it. According to the article the director of officating (Jerry Seeman) at the time said he was correct and both Phil and the PFRA asked the NFL to publicly issue a statement in support of Phil and they didn't. It appears as though the NFL was mostly concerned about image on this one. Phil qualified that year for a playoff game and they didn't give him an assignment, but still paid him a playoff game fee of $9,800.
I guess sometimes you gotta suck it up in this business and simply move on.
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