TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) have renewed their officiating partnership, underscoring their collective commitment to strengthening the pipeline of officials. The first iteration of the program was conducted between 2016-19. Two crews of seven CFL officials will take part in NFL training camp joint practices, beginning August 13.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited for this collaborative opportunity with the NFL,\u201d said Darren Hackwood, Vice-President of Officiating at the CFL. \u201cThe quality of officiating reflects the strength of the game. Having more repetitions at the professional level is a key driver of performance as we grow the officiating community throughout North America.\u201d<\/p>\n
RELATED Activities will include current CFL and NFL officials, as well as NFL development program officials. Due to in-season time commitments by CFL officials and staff, NFL officials will not travel to Canada at this juncture of the program. The two sides will explore future opportunities for exchange and collaboration in Canada at a later date.<\/p>\n \u201cFootball is a global sport and officiating is an integral component,\u201d said Ramon George, NFL vice president of officiating training and development. \u201cThe NFL and the CFL are two leagues with one standard. This partnership unites us with a shared officiating mission of accuracy, integrity and excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n From August 13-14, seven officials will travel to Minnesota to share insights and best practices with their NFL counterparts as the hometown Vikings welcome the New England Patriots. A separate crew of seven will also make its way to Philadelphia to exchange expertise and learnings with local officials while the Eagles host the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n MINNESOTA OFFICIATING CREW<\/p>\n Marc Cobb | Line of scrimmage | Brantford, Ont. PHILADELPHIA OFFICIATING CREW<\/p>\n Thomas Cesari | Line of scrimmage | Kirkland, Que.
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\nIain Cropper | Deep side | Saskatoon
\nRyan Lange | Deep middle | Edmonton
\nRitchie Miller | Umpire | Winnipeg
\nDan Mulvihill | Line of scrimmage | Regina
\nKevin Riopel | Deep side | Repentigny, Que.
\nAndrew Wakefield | Referee | Toronto<\/p>\n
\nDan Fleischhaker | Deep side | Regina
\nJason Maggio | Deep middle | Burlington, Ont.
\nJustin McInnes | Referee | Edmonton
\nKyle Mikulik | Umpire | Winnipeg
\nChristopher Shapka | Line of scrimmage | Comox, B.C.
\nRob Skaggs | Deep side | Edmonton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) have renewed their officiating partnership,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-66116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}