In the days before the 2025 American Football Conference championship game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs, there circulated many spoofs humorously suggesting that National ...

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The NFL assigned one of its most experienced referees the task of heading the officiating team for AFC Championship Game.

"It is insulting and preposterous to hear conspiracy theories that somehow 17 officiating crews consisting of 138 officials are colluding to assist one team," Green said in a statement. "NFL officials ...

The referee will speak to fans via a microphone, with the announcement carried on loudspeakers in the stadium – similar to the procedure in American football. The referee's statement will ...

German football league (DFL) said on Monday it had launched a pilot project for referees to explain decisions to fans via ...

The Premier League's chief football officer since 2022, Scholes said the league "wasn't in the best place" with VAR after a ...

A group of former officials and coaches evaluate the referees on every call they make on every play throughout the season and ...

This is Blakeman's 17th year total and 15th as a referee. Blakeman officiated college football from 2001 to ... He was named one the American Bar Association Journal's "12 of the Year's Most ...

This is why the IFAB decided at the start of 2023 to experiment with referees broadcasting their decisions. This has long been common practice in American football, ice hockey and rugby.

I'd love him to be part of the English Football Association, training, mentoring, out of the public light to look after himself. He has so much to offer. Paul Field, Referees' Association chairman ...

Stadium announcements are commonplace in other sports such as rugby union and American football, and the system ... At those matches, the referee will explain a decision after they have been ...