View image | gettyimages.com Referee overcomes life threatening illness and long layoff You might excuse Bill Vinovich if he feels a little extra emotional on Sunday. ...
We remember with heavy hearts a life well lived, and well loved. "When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer...
Referee Tony Corrente sustained a hit in Baltimore in 2011 that lead to a far more serious diagnosis.
At least three have worked the Final Four Several officials work multiple sports from Pop Warner to the pros. There is quite a history of...
If you can keep your head when all about you   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men...
How does the NFL get their new officials up to speed? Larry Upson knows what it is like to be hired into the NFL. Â Upson was...
Ron Phares completes first season of retirement For 43 years Ron Phares chased football players on fields all over the country. This past season Phares, 69,...
Tom Barnes was a NFL line judge for 26 seasons This past fall was the first one in 44 seasons that Tom Barnes wasn’t enforcing football...
NFC Divisional Playoff We will be live blogging the calls and rules interpretations from the Packers-49ers game. (If you see continue reading below, click it to...
Officials used to worry about job security around playoffs When the regular season is over, the NFL officials wait to see whether they pack their gear...
What crews look good to extend their season? The last quarter of the NFL regular season has started (didn’t training camps open two weeks ago?). As...
This season has seen three inadvertent whistles (IW) being blown by the officials, with the latest being this past week in the game between the Raiders...
You’ve seen it before; a sweep comes to the sideline and the ball carrier and several other players go crashing out of bounds while the chain...
A long-term stimulus is built by tourists This is far off-topic here, but please indulge me, as I have this forum to reach a larger audience,...
The NFL officiating staff is heavy on experience which is great news. The flip side to this is that we will be seeing a higher than...
The NFL Referees Association and its 121 members are enjoying unprecedented appreciation (video)Â and good will after agreeing to a new union contract and ending the league...
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...
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...
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...
NFL OWNERS APPROVE ‘MODIFIED SUDDEN DEATH’ We think that the overtime format, more than 50 years removed from its first use with no modification, has worked...