{"id":68143,"date":"2025-08-08T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68143\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:59:20","slug":"amarillo-faces-referee-shortage-for-upcoming-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/68143\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo faces referee shortage for upcoming football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The Amarillo Football Chapter of the Texas Association of Sports Officials (TASO) is grappling with a significant shortage of referees as the new season approaches. <\/p>\n<p>The chapter currently has about 115 members, but requires 145 to 150 officials to cover games for local student-athletes adequately. Without additional referees, some games may face scheduling changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friday Night football is a Texas tradition, and it takes dedicated officials to make it happen,&#8221; said Esrael Silva, Jr., President of the Amarillo Football Chapter. &#8220;We need more people to step up so our student-athletes can keep playing the game we all love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No prior experience is necessary, as full training is provided. <\/p>\n<p>Those interested in becoming part of the Friday Night Lights tradition are encouraged to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarefs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.amarefs.org\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/amarefs.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The Amarillo Football Chapter of the Texas Association of Sports Officials (TASO) is grappling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[49597,49601,399,49599,398,396,397,49596,49600,99,23552,49598,49602],"class_list":["post-68143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-amarillo-football-chapter","tag-dedicated-officials","tag-football","tag-friday-night-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-referee-shortage","tag-scheduling-changes","tag-sports","tag-student-athletes","tag-texas-association-of-sports-officials","tag-training-provided"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}