The NFL announced that the suspension of Brandon Meriweather was reduced from two games to one. This appears to have been a deliberate effort by the...
Week 7: Vikings at Giants (video) The Arkansas Association of High School Officials gets it. The NFL does not. If you are an official at any...
After delivering two illegal hits with his helmet, Washington safety Brandon Meriweather has two weeks to think about it, assuming he can still remember the blows...
The big call of the week was Tony Michalek’s flag on a Patriots defensive tackle Chris Jones. Jones shoved his teammate into the Jets offensive line...
Week 7: Patriots at Jets Update: The rule change is included here, which we identified as a point of emphasis, not a rule change. However, it...
You can follow our coverage on Twitter, and we will also post here some notable calls and describe some of the complicated rulings of the weekend....
NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino narrates the weekly media tape on calls from the previous week, which can be downloaded here. Several unusual calls...
In 1975, the NFL decided to put a wireless microphone on the referee for penalty announcements. Â Officiating boss Art McNally, wanted the officials to use this...
Carl Cheffers, seen here at a game last season, will bring his crew to Indianapolis for Sunday Night Football. The crews headed by Mike Carey and...
Football Zebras Roundtable We asked our officiating roundtable to review the Patriots game-winning touchdown for a possible holding foul and a Washington punt with an interesting...
An abbreviated list of news from Week 6 games. Quick calls [Football Zebras] Multiple offsetting dead-ball fouls in 49ers-Cardinals game [Mike Pereira, Fox] Saints fans are...
You can follow our coverage on Twitter, but we will post some of the more notable calls from the weekend here in our liveblog. Did you...
We have some leftover items from Week 5, so let’s serve them up before their expiration dates pass. Bengals lost timeout Prior to a Bengals 3rd-and-goal...
The crews of Jerome Boger and Bill Vinovich are off this week. A huge assist this week from Football-refs.com in compiling the list. Thursday, Oct. 10...
Football Zebras Roundtable We had a few calls this week that were borderline judgement calls. How close were they? Former NFL officiating supervisors Jim Daopoulos and...
Officials double check with each other on tight and routine calls NFL officials each have a specific area and specific player or players to watch during...
Dean Blandino, the NFL vice president of officiating, has the breakdown of a few calls in his “Official Review” segment on NFL Network: The Seahawks recovery...
U Dan Ferrell blamed for calls outside his keys Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith has a complaint about a specific official he would like everyone to...
The replay officials are now under collective bargaining agreement through 2020, having worked the first four weeks of the season on an expired deal. Replay officials...
Image: Dallas Cowboys photo First, our quick calls [Football Zebras] The pink penalty flags did cause some confusion with the players’ pink towels, all symbolic for...