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 ...

While it happens every year, it feels like the NFL referees were operating under a microscope during the 2025-2026 season. From the beginning of the season, when the tush push proved that it was ...

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.” ...