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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The replacement refs have been replaced but the NFL is still paying them, according to a report confirmed by NFL.com.\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the report, 112 replacement refs will receive either $3,500 or $3,000, depending on whether they were a referee or a sideline official.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The refs worked the first three weeks of the NFL season but the league and the referees association came to terms on a new contract days before Week 4 was set to begin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The news was first reported by our own Peter King.\nhttps://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/251859761526603776&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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