Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with Kate Upton.

It is not an easy task to put together a list, such as the Greatest Sports Moments of 2012, specifically because so many things happen in any given year that it’s all but impossible to universally gauge which one event or person is greater than another. But since we’re just a couple dudes who like to make fun of stuff and almost always ignore actual sports news, it’s really quite easy.

With that said, here’s a quick breakdown of how our team of fact checkers and sports analyst number crunchers determine which people, places and things were the most important and influential in 2012…

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Throughout the first three weeks of the NFL season, I, like most people, made fun of the replacement refs and their seemingly endless blunders. But secretly, I felt really bad for them, because they were just average bros living a dream of calling penalties on the world’s largest stage. Granted, some of the replacement refs had been fired from the Lingerie Football League and Lance Easley wasn’t even qualified to ref college games, but they’re still people with real emotions.

And now that the real refs are back to make calls to piss us all off, the scabs are speaking out about what it was like to be hated by every NFL fan in America. Are they going to over-embellish their hardships with horrible analogies, comparing themselves to the Son of God? You bet your red flagged asses.

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"Thanks for the f*ckin' Rewteet."

Since the Green Bay Packers lost to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football, which included one of the most controversial calls in NFL history, Packers guard TJ Lang has gained roughly 90,000 new followers on Twitter. It’s not because he’s a charming fella or that he and fellow Packers guard Josh Sitton have a friendly rivalry over who is the better guard (it’s Sitton because he played at UCF, but I digress). It is, however, the result of two delightful F-bombs he dropped on Twitter after the game on Monday night.

By now, we’re all familiar with Lang’s “Tweets Heard ‘Round the World”, but in case you were cramming for a blood test, Lang first Tweeted this strongly-worded message to the refs…

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I suppose if you’re one of the two replacement refs responsible for the above image that will go down in infamy as one of the worst calls in NFL history, you’re probably going to want a drink. In case you’ve been mining for gold in the Arctic, Lance Easley up there – the dude calling touchdown – and the replacement ref crew working Monday Night Football this week wrongly awarded Seattle Seahawks WR Golden Tate a touchdown on a last second Hail Mary that was, of course, actually an interception. Either way, Green Bay’s loss is in the books.

You know what else is in the books? Easley’s 15 Jager bombs, broskis! And he better have tipped well, because he’s in for a world of pain today after it was revealed that the scab ref was out partying in Fresno last night, and for some ungodly reason, he thought it was a good idea to take a picture with a Packers fan. Because no one would ever find out.

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In the best sports-related comedy weather forecast since that guy in Cleveland got pissed about the NBA Finals and screamed about how “IT’S ALL WEATHER,” Green Bay television station NBC26 used a replacement weatherman (or “weatherguy”) to prove that yes, even local news thinks the NFL replacement referee debacle is embarrassing.

But hey, to the weatherman’s credit, a morning low of -200°, a peak at 346° and an afternoon high of zero sounds like a comedic exaggeration, but he might’ve just accidentally reported D.C.’s weather instead of Green Bay’s.

Things actually get worse when the real weatherman shows up and weatermans all over everything, but isn’t that the story unfolding? Replacement referees do a bad job, we cry out for the real referees, then remember the last however-many-years of our lives we’ve spent yelling about how normal refs never make the right call. No happy ending to this story. Just like local news!

[h/t to Shutdown Corner]

Sorry, “dog on trampoline” videos or “child returns home from war to mash-up the NBA and ‘Game Of Thrones’,” today’s Internet belongs to the NFL replacement refs. Earlier today we chronicled Twitter’s, uh, abrasive response to TOUCHDOWNERCEPTION-Gate, and now the hate for that gaggle of Foot Locker employees jus’ doin’ th’best they can has gone promotional.

Mid-States Football League semi-pro team the Racine Raiders are having “Replacement Referee Night” at their next home game on Saturday, September 29, with costume contests, poor officiating prizes and proceeds going to absolutely nobody who can properly call a f**king football game.

The details:

The team will give anyone who comes dressed as a football official free admission into the game. The team encourages fans to be creative and family-friendly with their outfits. Any outfits deemed to be vulgar will not qualify for free admission. A few replacement referees will be selected to go on the field for a “Worst Call of the Night” contest.

“Fans are frustrated with the state of professional football right now,” said Raiders president Matthew Snyder. “We want to give them a creative and fun outlet for their frustration.”

The Raiders are also offering free admission to college students with a valid college identification card and youth football players wearing their team uniform that are accompanied by a paying adult. (via RacineRadiers.com)

I love that you can still wear a vulgar referee costume to the game, you just can’t get the free admission. That’s probably code for “hey local teens, I know you’ve got a slutty referee costume you want to wear and we want to see it, we just have to pretend like you’re doing something wrong,” followed by a “come on, get in here” shuffling-in gesture. And God bless the Raiders for setting this up … I know that if I was a Green Bay Packers fan, an afternoon in Racine spent making wanking motions at replacement referees would make me feel totally okay with how Monday Night Football ended.

My favorite part of the press release is how it turns into a “sorry we’re not the NFL” thing.

“The Raiders have been offering quality, affordable, family-friendly entertainment at the minor league level for 60 years now,” Snyder says. “We don’t have the big names of the professional leagues but we have a quality product.”

SO COME ON DOWN TO RACINE’S USED FOOTBALL LOT FOR THE BEST SELECTION AND LOWEST PRICES

If anybody goes to this, bring your camera and send over a few pictures. I’m anxious to see if the pretend worst calls are any worse than the real ones.

[h/t to Fark]