{"id":3114,"date":"2012-08-29T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2012-08-29T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T20:01:02","slug":"nfl-to-start-season-with-replacement-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"NFL To Start Season With Replacement Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0NEW YORK (AP Aug 29, 2012) &#8211; The NFL will open the regular season with<br \/>\nreplacement officials.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 League executive Ray Anderson has told the 32 teams that with<br \/>\nnegotiations remain at a standstill between the NFL and the<br \/>\nofficials&#8217; union.<\/p>\n<p>The replacements will be on the field beginning next Wednesday night when the Cowboys visit the Giants to open the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The NFL Referees Association was locked out in early June and<br \/>\ntalks on a new collective bargaining agreement went nowhere.<br \/>\nReplacements have been used throughout the preseason, with mixed<br \/>\nresults.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2001, the NFL used replacements for the first week of the<br \/>\nregular season before a contract was finalized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalGray.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1138\" title=\"APnatioalGray\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APnatioalGray-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0NEW YORK (AP Aug 29, 2012) &#8211; The NFL will open the regular season with replacement officials. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 League executive Ray Anderson has told the 32 teams that with negotiations remain at a standstill between the NFL and the officials&#8217; union. The replacements will be on the field beginning next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}