We cannot remember three separate crews having a crew member having to leave a game due to injury or sickness. Until this past week.
Referee Tony Corrente celebrates his 70th birthday on November 12.
It was a quiet weekend on the officiating front, but always something to observe.
Some officiating takeaways from this weekend's Wild Card action.
Chiefs receiver Jeremy Maclin and Rams cornerback Lamarcus Joyner were ejected for fighting near the end of the first half of their Week 2 preseason game...
Embed from Getty Images  It can be fun and games for the officials, too … at the right time When you officiate, you have to...
Week 4: Lions at Seahawks (video) So it is a Monday night, an early season game at Seattle’s CenturyLink field. Lions driving for the north end...
The Pacific-12 Conference has hired NFL director of officiating David Coleman as its vice president of officiating — a newly created position for the college conference. ...
Referee Tony Corrente sustained a hit in Baltimore in 2011 that lead to a far more serious diagnosis.
#457964914 / gettyimages.com Impetus rule. Cowboys defensive back J.J. Wilcox intercepted a first-quarter pass in the end zone and then subsequently fumbled the ball out of...
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...
Three NFL officials will get a chance to wear the white hat in the hopes of a promotion.
Two veterans replace the retired Green and Winter NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino confirmed to an Associated Press reporter yesterday that Ronald Torbert and Craig Wrolstad will...
It was a great weekend of football, and the conference championship officiating crews did well by their respective games. 1. Umpire Bill Schuster had the game...
Tony Corrente will head the AFC title game. Gene Steratore will head the NFC game.
Earlier this week, we narrowed the field of potential conference championship referees down to five. Through multiple sources with knowledge of the grading and the assignment...
In an attempt to narrow down potential assignments, Football Zebras has learned from multiple sources that last year’s Super Bowl referee, Jerome Boger, did not receive...
Football Zebras commentary Week 17 is upon us, meaning that the final evaluations for officials vying for playoff positions are being determined. Officials will not be...
Week 7: Vikings at Giants (video) The Arkansas Association of High School Officials gets it. The NFL does not. If you are an official at any...
Last year it was a rash of inadvertent whistles. This year the officials are having trouble enforcing penalties. Former NFL vice president for officiating and current...