A suggestion from an 11-year old boy will be evident on the field this week for the Miami Dolphins – New York Jets game. The officiating...
Football Zebras.com exclusive Bill Vinovich walked off the field after the 2006 season, sidelined by a heart condition. Sunday, he returns to the field to officiate...
Football Zebras.com exclusive The United Football League has entered its fourth season this week, but it had to leave five of their officials behind. The NFL...
The NFL officials are in Dallas today to meet with union leadership and vote to ratify the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL. Watch this post...
The return of the regular NFL referees is making front-page news.
‘REAL’ OFFICIALS RETURN TO FIELD TONIGHT [Check the bottom of this post for the latest updates.] The NFL and the NFL Referees Association have reached a...
Progress is being made in the talks between the NFL and the NFL Referees Association. Since the news is moving fairly swiftly, we are going to...
Replacement official’s Facebook profile puts him on inactive list The NFL has removed side judge Brian Stropolo from today’s Saints-Panthers game because of a professed allegiance...
League, NFLRA turn back on each other, fans The lockout of the NFL’s officials will continue into the regular season, as the league and the union...
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 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...
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...
[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...
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...
