Competition Committee begins reviewing full agenda The NFL Competition Committee is getting a first look at its agenda, and it already seems like two proposals will...
Football Zebras has learned that two officials in today’s game will end their careers on football’s greatest stage. Field judge Scott Steenson and side judge Dave...
Despite chatter, NFL replay will remain under the hood It has become a groundswell in the past season to have the NFL adopt a replay review...
Former field judge Al Jury is being honored by the NFL with the Art McNally Award for his distinguished officiating career. He will be formally presented...
The Pro Bowl will undergo radical changes this season in an attempt to add variety to a typically dull game. The league, based on their promotional...
Scott Green will head the Pro Bowl crew from Hawaii on Sunday. As the sun sets on paradise, so will also end Green’s 23-year NFL career....
During the coverage of last week’s 49ers-Panthers divisional playoff game, Football Zebras noted early that the officials were looking to keep control of a potential tinderbox...
The NFL has announced that Terry McAulay will be the referee for Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2. This will be McAulay’s third Super Bowl ring...
Football Zebras has now confirmed the crews that will be working the Conference Championship games this weekend. Officials are listed with their uniform number, years experience...
Tony Corrente will head the AFC title game. Gene Steratore will head the NFC game.
In a bizarre sequence leading to halftime, a 49ers incomplete pass from the 1-yard line to the corner of the end zone becomes a touchdown in...
Is the coach’s challenge system the advantage that separates the master tacticians from the also-rans? This season that is not the case: not only did only...
An observation by one of the members on our discussion board, Behind the Football Stripes. As long as the league office is following the previously established...
Earlier this week, we narrowed the field of potential conference championship referees down to five. Through multiple sources with knowledge of the grading and the assignment...
With one round of the playoffs in the books and the second round assignments trickling out, it seems that we are, again, grasping at the true...
In an attempt to narrow down potential assignments, Football Zebras has learned from multiple sources that last year’s Super Bowl referee, Jerome Boger, did not receive...
Unless there is an unusual circumstance, the Super Bowl officials are all assigned to a Divisional Playoff game. Which of the four referees do you think...
Clete Blakeman, Carl Cheffers, Terry McAulay, and Pete Morelli are the referees in the Divisional Playoffs.
After wild card weekend, it always strikes me — only seven more meaningful football games this year. Â In an attempt not to get too maudlin, here...
Football Zebras has confirmed the officiating crews for the Wild Card weekend. Officials are listed with their uniform number, years experience (including this season), the crew...