Week 15: Packers at Patriots Referee Ed Hochuli won’t have the benefit of his informative public-address announcements to defend a flag in the second quarter of...
Week 15: Packers at Patriots After administering a pass interference penalty at the 1-yard line, the Packers were trying to snap the ball quickly, which referee...
Jets trainer Sal Alosi, who was suspended for the remainder of the 2010 season and postseason for tripping an opponent, has confirmed conspiracy theories that there...
Did you see a call that we should know about? Point us to it in the comments section of this post. Referee assignments are after the...
Week 15: 49ers at Chargers Niners defensive tackle Justin Smith was ejected from the Thursday night 49ers-Chargers game for impermissible contact with an official (video). Umpire...
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...
Line judge Jeff Bergman was seen leaving the field on a cart after the end of the third quarter of the Giants–Vikings game in Detroit. He...
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...
Week 14: Dolphins at Jets It was a routine punt, but at the conclusion of the play, Dolphins cornerback and special-teamer Nolan Carroll was prone on...
By now you are well aware of the blizzard in Minnesota that caused the roof to collapse on the Metrodome. Other than the fact that Fox...
Did you see a call on the field that was so weak it couldn’t support the weight of 17 inches of snow? Let us know in...
A post over at NBC Philadelphia’s Birds Nest blog adds up the statistics of penalty flags per game through the first 13 weeks. The most over-officious...
Week 12: Colts at Chargers An item that flew by our desk late last week that we are getting to now: Colts head coach Jim Caldwell,...
Week 13: Steelers at Ravens Two Ravens players who had hits that were not penalized were fined by the league Monday night. Haloti Ngata was fined $15,000...
Week 13: Bears at Lions As a follow-up to the Ndamukong Suh penalty, referee Ed Hochuli (whose weekday and offseason job is a trial lawyer) explained...
Week 13: Steelers at Ravens A third quarter hit on Steelers receiver Heath Miller by Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain sounded pretty bad (video and audio), and...
Week 13: Bears at Lions Ndamukong Suh, the Lions defensive tackle who was penalized erroneously for a horse-collar tackle two weeks ago, encores with another unearned...
Let us know of any controversial calls in Week 13 in the comments section of this post. We had a few late-week developments that we haven’t...
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...
Street brawls and cheap shots are about to become a bit more common in the NFL. After banging each other under the hood, the NFL opted...