The following memo was distributed to the 32 NFL teams from the league office on Saturday. The response from the NFL Referees Association was sent Sunday....
After a month of silence, the typical 11th hour negotiation cram sessions are now underway between the NFL and the NFL Referees Association. The game officials...
The list of the NFL replacement officials for the final preseason week is available after the jump. NOTE: The officials that are listed were scheduled to...
The inevitable has now become reality: there will be replacement referees in the first week of the regular season. The NFL has locked out its union...
NFL executive vice president for football operations, Ray Anderson, clarified the NFL’s proposal regarding full-time officials and scoffed at the idea that the integrity of the...
[Editor’s note: Starting with this post, we will be contributing a regular column to the National Football Post. We are pleased to be collaborating with them...
The list of the NFL replacement officials for the third preseason week is available after the jump.
It is almost certain that the NFL regular season will begin with replacement officials. The NFL has locked out the members of the NFL Referees Association...
The NFL assessed its first fine of the season for an on-field infraction against Eagles safety Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie. Last Thursday, Rodgers-Cromartie hit Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich...
This has been a week of point-counterpoint news stories and rebuttals, as summarized by Barry Wilner of the Associated Press, about the labor dispute between the...
The list of the NFL replacement officials for the second preseason week is available after the jump.
[media-credit name=”Mike Jurecki | XTRA 910 Sports.” align=”alignright” width=”150″][/media-credit] Shannon Eastin will have to wait at least week to continue her history-making stint as the first...
A few days ago, I had a theory that the NFL wanted to make officials full-time and that it was a roadblock in the negotiations with...
Preseason Week 1: Giants at Jaguars 4th Qtr | :12 | Jaguars 32-31 | NYG ball | 3rd & 3 @ JAX 45 Giants quarterback (wait,...
We are going to offer somewhat live commentary, but it is still preseason, so expect me to step away from the computer from time to time....
Steelers at Eagles 1st Qtr | 1:12 | Steelers 3-0 | Steelers ball | 3rd & 16 @ PIT 24 | video Eagles safety Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie...
Buried in the fourth quarter of the Monday night game was an announcement of interest to us NFL rules wonks. Play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico on the...
It still is summer, and we usually lay low here during the preseason. But, given the circumstances of the replacement NFL referees, we are going to...
Crossing the proverbial picket line is familiar to some of this year’s replacement officials. That’s because the NFL has found somebody that they used to know....
The gap between the NFL and legal gambling activities has just become much narrower. It was from a side of the business that the league would...