When the FAA grounded all air travel in and out of the United States this week, the NFL on-field product took an interesting amount of collateral damage. While NFL teams scheduled to be on the road for Week 10 weren't materially impacted due to the myriad of cancellation of flights and the backlog ripple effect, referees were.
On Saturday, the NFL announced that they would be shuffling assignments so that referees would be able to drive to their destinations. Back-up referees will have to be deployed and three contests were impacted. 10 of the 12 Sunday contests had their crews changed out, including the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco…
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