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...
Jeff Darlington reports from the Officials Clinic in Dallas for NFL Network. video
Brad Allen: ‘a double rookie’ at clinic AP reporter Stephen Hawkins speaks to first-year NFL official Brad Allen, who is the first official in 50 years...
It is only 2½ days, but in its own way it is a grueling training camp. The NFL officials are meeting today in Dallas for their...
The league announced that Mark Pellis has been hired to fill the vacancy left by the surprise retirement of Mike Carey, who left the field to...
With 12 vacancies filled in the last few months, how will the NFL approach filling a 13th spot after the resignation of referee Mike Carey? The...
Brad Allen is the first official in almost 50 years to be placed in the referee position in his first NFL season.
CBS Sports has hired referee Mike Carey away from the NFL to work as a rules analyst during the network’s Thursday and Sunday games. Carey will...
[Update: Brad Allen was moved to referee without having worked at the umpire position to fill a vacancy caused by referee Mike Carey’s departure. The post...
This post has been updated to reflect changes in the 2014 officiating staff after the initial announcement. The NFL has announced its 2014 roster of officials...
May 15 is a significant date for NFL officials. It is the first day that the NFL starts communicating with their men in stripes. As part...
