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...
Crossing the proverbial picket line is familiar to some of this year’s replacement officials. That’s because the NFL has found somebody that they used to know....
The gap between the NFL and legal gambling activities has just become much narrower. It was from a side of the business that the league would...
From that I’ve read and heard, the most talked about lockout issue coming from the NFL Referees Association is the pension plan. Currently the officials receive a traditional pension...
[Editor’s note: With this post, we welcome Mark Schultz as a contributing writer. We look forward to a long collaborative relationship with him.] The NFL preseason...
What seemed a far-off future threat last October is now a relative certainty, according to a report by ESPN. A source with knowledge of the negotiations...
Umpire Garth DeFelice departed the Lions-Saints game early with a foot injury at 5:45 of the first quarter. (Apparently it was on the kickoff, because all...
EXCLUSIVE Zebra Blog has learned that referee Scott Green has been on leave the past two weeks with an injury. Gene Steratore substituted for Green in...
It is a rule that rarely comes into play. In fact it is discussed far more often than it actually happens in the game. But the...
The NFL released its schedule Sunday night for the 12 teams qualifying for the playoffs. We are waiting this week for the assignments for the game...
The week prior to a calendar changes prompts a look back at the biggest and best of the year in every imaginable category. There are no...
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...