replacement officials

In week one, the NFL's replacement officials weren't as big a story as many thought they would be, doing an admirable job throughout most of the games, save for a few slip ups (and one extra time out). That all came to an end on Sunday, as the officials played a huge role in deciding games, making the league look foolish, and providing the worst call in NFL history...

The NFL has announced that they will use replacement officials to begin the regular season.  The league is being prideful to a fault.

Throughout the course of the NFL preseason, we have seen and heard a ton of criticism for awfully bad calls and non-calls being made by the replacement officials, while the NFL Referees Association remains locked out in their contract negotiations with the league...

The National Football League will open its 2012 regular season next week with replacement officials, the league announced on Wednesday afternoon.

As part of the fallout from last Friday's preseason game at the Jacksonville Jaguars, Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz made a number of comments about the replacement officials, including the fact that he is worried about player safety with them in place...