NFL officials have several tools to try and maintain order and prevent the game from degenerating into a fight. The biggest tool, short of throwing a flag, is preventative officiating. Officials don't want to throw flags and throw people out a ball games, so they use their people skills to
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Week 10 officiating field report
Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for Week 10 in the NFL with live updates below on Sunday. If you see anything confusing, unusual, or controversial, please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...
Week 1 officiating field report
Football Zebras kicks of its eleventh season of coverage with our weekly liveblog covering the officials and rules interpretations. If you see anything confusing, unusual, or controversial, please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates
7 officiating observations for the 2018 season
Divisional Playoffs liveblog: Cowboys at Rams
2018 NFC Divisional Playoffs Follow us here for rolling coverage of the calls and rules interpretations of the NFC Divisional Playoff game from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. If you have any questions or comments, use the comments section of this post, or tweet us @footballzebras. Today's crew is headed by John Parry. Yrs 2018 crew College Occupation R 132 John
Divisional Playoffs liveblog: Colts at Chiefs
2018 AFC Divisional Playoffs Follow us here for rolling coverage of the calls and rules interpretations of the AFC Divisional Playoff game from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. If you have any questions or comments, use the comments section of this post, or tweet us @footballzebras. Today's crew is headed by John Hussey. Yrs 2018
Week 10 remainders: Dissecting special illegal motions and illegal shifts
Embed from Getty Images  A couple plays from this past Sunday raised eyebrows of some football fans. Two of these plays involved pre-snap motion that turned into live ball fouls. One trick play from early in the first quarter of the Falcons-Browns game resulted in an illegal motion penalty on Browns