NFL referee Tony Corrente has resigned from his position as the coordinator of football officiating for the Pacific 12 Conference on Thursday. Conference commissioner Larry Scott...
Dean Blandino, NFL vice-president of officiating, released his weekly video highlighting several penalties and rules highlights throughout the league for Week 4 (video download). We’ve wrapped...
Head linesman Ed Camp has been off the field this season, apparently sidelined by a grave illness earlier this year.
#158811399 / gettyimages.com Football Zebras has learned from multiple sources that back judge Kurt Dornan has retired. He is now the 14th official to have left...
Week 4: Packers at Bears (video at 2:30) Early in the fourth quarter, the Chicago Bears’ game hopes were hanging by a thread. The defense had...
Washington defensive lineman Chris Baker was ejected Sunday, but his penalty should not have been called. Was the ejection in error?
The semiregular “Official Review” segment appeared for (I believe) the first time this season on NFL Total Access. Vice president of officiating Dean Blandino addressed two...
49ers receiver Anquan Boldin was flagged for head-butting Cardinals safety Tony Jefferson, and while he owned his role in that penalty, Boldin said the officials let...
We will have our eyes on the games, but if you see anything confusing, unusual, or controversial, please let us know. Leave a comment below Send...
In the third quarter of Week 2, Jets quarterback Geno Smith was sacked while trying to throw a pass. The ball landed behind him, so the...
Craig Wrolstad (shown here last week conducting the coin toss in Cleveland) has the Thursday night game this week. Ed Hochuli and his crew is off...
Jets at Packers (video) The Jets scored an apparent game-tying touchdown, but the play was dead because the Jets bench called timeout prior to the snap....
Whenever we have a few loose items to cover, we will run a remainders column at the end of the week. Here are some things that...
NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino released his weekly video on Friday (download) discussing some controversial and noteworthy calls for Week 1. As we expected,...
To better understand some of the more complicated calls, we are happy to welcome back Larry Upson and Jim Daopoulos to the Football Zebras Roundtable. Both...
Commentary by Ben Austro The play was one in a million. You could work the triple shifts in peewee right up through three decades in the...
NFL granted request Former NFL referee Mike Carey, who retired before the start of this season to be an officiating analyst for CBS Sports, asked the...
Sid Semon, 1935 – 2014 Former NFL head linesman Sid Semon has died. According to his obituary, Mr. Semon died this past July 15 at the...
Three NFL officials will get a chance to wear the white hat in the hopes of a promotion.
No. 70 will never be worn again by an official The NFL made history this weekend at its officiating clinic in Dallas, as it announced that...