What crews look good to extend their season? The last quarter of the NFL regular season has started (didn’t training camps open two weeks ago?). As...
This season has seen three inadvertent whistles (IW) being blown by the officials, with the latest being this past week in the game between the Raiders...
You’ve seen it before; a sweep comes to the sideline and the ball carrier and several other players go crashing out of bounds while the chain...
A long-term stimulus is built by tourists This is far off-topic here, but please indulge me, as I have this forum to reach a larger audience,...
The NFL officiating staff is heavy on experience which is great news. The flip side to this is that we will be seeing a higher than...
The NFL Referees Association and its 121 members are enjoying unprecedented appreciation (video)Â and good will after agreeing to a new union contract and ending the league...
Brett Favre: 297 consecutive starts This is slightly off our core topic of officiating, but since it is a huge football milestone, we are veering a...
The Jets, in consultation with the NFL, assessed a watered-down punishment on Sal Alosi, a trainer who tripped Dolphins special-teams player Nolan Carroll. According to the team, he...
The replay system as we know it needs further review. We are going to be highlighting these in an on-going series. While we have said that...
NFL OWNERS APPROVE ‘MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH’ We think that the overtime format, more than 50 years removed from its first use with no modification, has worked...