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If you already think the Kansas City Chiefs get all the calls...Good news, Chiefs fans. Shawn Hochuli will be the referee for Kansas City’s AFC Divisional round game against the Buffalo Bills. ...

This week in football: Chiefs' act is getting so old; No Supe for Al Michaels; Tommy DeVito's stupid situation with the GiantsFull disclosure, I’ve never been on board with the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, they were, for a while, the best team in America, with a young and exciting generational talent under center and a head coach who never had to answer for anything because he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a funny mustache, and ...

NFL officials have been asked to influence games because of betting: Ex-VP of officiatingOne of the biggest names in NFL officiating revealed that there have been attempts to fix games for gambling purposes. ...

Why NFL Officiating Is Such A Shitshow Right Now

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the NFL is having officiating problems. This year’s crop of rules controversies has a little bit of everything, from inscrutable procedures and points of emphasis that seem to change on a whim to inexperience within the ranks to the role of technology and the...

The NFL's New Pass Interference Replay Rule Is Going To Be Pretty Chaotic

The NFL’s competition committee issued its recommendations for how instant replay for pass interference will work, based on the rule that had been approved in March. On one hand, some relatively prudent judgement has been ironed into the standards the league will use to review and overturn pass inte...

Q&A: Dean Blandino On Confusing NFL Rules, The Dez Bryant Catch, And The Cowboys' Party Bus

In April, NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino surprised a lot of league people by leaving to take a job with Fox Sports. Blandino’s role with the NFL was to eat shit whenever an official or an officiating crew screwed up. Now, he gets to serve as an in-game rules analyst alongside Mike P...

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NFL's Head Of Officiating Leaving To Become A TV Guy [Update]

NFL VP of officiating Dean Blandino, whose job it is to publicly eat shit every time the the referees blow a call (he eats a lot of shit), is leaving the league for that sweet TV life....