The core impediment is money. The NFL won’t pay what needs to be paid to make officiating as good as it can be. Full-time officials will cost a lot, especially since the officials would have to be ...

In December 2025, the NFL commenced a P.R. push in advance of the looming expiration of its Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL Referees Association. The effort apparently has gone to the ...

NFLRA needs to engage the NFL in the P.R. battle.

New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel would like to see the NFL make a notable change to its officiating for the 2026 season. While at the NFL Scouting Combine this week, Vrabel pointed out that ...

The NFL’s competition committee is mulling some changes to officiating at the combine this week. Even if the two sides do not come to an agreement on a new labor deal this offseason, there still will ...

Being an NFL official may be an unforgiving job, but it's also a fairly lucrative one. While NFL referees are only part-time employees, the league pays them a solid chunk of change to perform the role ...

In a perfect world, NFL officiating would never be a key storyline in the Super Bowl. But as the Rolling Stones titled one of their hit songs in 1969, “You can’t always get what you want.” ...