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After Seattle fiasco, NFL must bring back the zebras and send out the clowns.

Amid talk of replacement referees and contract extensions, Andrew Brandt pauses to remember the NFL's struggle to make the right call after Sept. 11, 2001.

The NFL is preparing replacement referees as much as it possibly can, going so far as to bring 17 referees to New York this past week to watch the Cowboys-Giants opener with the league's head of officials, Carl Johnson, according to sources.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he was pleased with Wednesday night's season opener, the first time the league has used replacement referees in a regular season game since the first week of the 2001 season.

The NFL kicked off the season with replacement referees and, for the most part, nothing seemed different.

Two days before the NFL season kicks off, no talks are scheduled between the league and the locked-out on-field officials.

The NFL Referees Association says it has broken off talks with the league after another meeting Saturday morning failed to reach a resolution on a new labor deal.

The NFL and its locked-out officials met Friday in an attempt to resolve their stalled labor negotiations.

The NFL will open the regular season with replacement officials.

SAN DIEGO -- In the Dallas Cowboys' first preseason game, a penalty was called on tackle Jermey Parnell -- and he wasn't even on the field. Then quarterback Tony Romo had to tell the officials where to move the ball after they had spotted it away fro...

Here are five ways to improve the NFL's replacement officials.

Less than three weeks before the season kicks off, the NFL and the NFL Referees Association are no closer to an agreement to end the lockout of the officials.