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Football officials are commonly, but incorrectly, referred to collectively as referees, but each position has specific duties and a specific name: Common positions include referee (which is the lead member of the officiating team), umpire, head linesman (or down judge), line judge, field judge (or back umpire), side judge, back judge and center ...
The National Football League Referees Association (NFLRA), established in 1972 as the Professional Football Referees Association is a labor union that serves as the collective bargaining agency for game officials with the National Football League (NFL). The NFLRA has been involved in two work stoppages, lock outs taking place in 2001 and 2012.
2012 NFL referee lockout; List of NFL officials; List of Super Bowl officials + Art McNally Award; 0–9. 2001 NFL referee lockout; A. Bruce Alford Sr. Brad Allen;
The NFL grades the performance of officials on a weekly basis, judging them for accuracy. Officials with higher scores get the plum assignments in the playoffs.
Note: Years listed refer to season the official began or ended career in the NFL. At the start of the 1998 season, the NFL switched position titles of back judge and field judge. Prior to 1998, the field judge was the deep official in the center of the field, and the back judge was deep on the sideline.
He had been the NFL’s youngest game official when he was hired as a 30-year-old field judge in 1960 and in the ensuing decades was in stripes for some of the most memorable games in league history.
This comes three years after the first all-Black officiating crew worked an NFL game. On Nov. 23, 2020, referee Jerome Boger and his crew became the first all-Black crew when they officiated the ...
Shawn Smith is an American professional football official in the National Football League (NFL). He wears uniform number 14. He wears uniform number 14. He entered the league in the 2015 season as an umpire, and was promoted to referee for the 2018 season, following the retirements of Terry McAulay and Gene Steratore .