NFL Referee Interference Moments

Fitzpatrick rolling and gonna go deep

Has a man open down the middle. And it is caught. Caught by Nate Washington

And he's gonna go for the touchdown after the collision at the 30-yard line

For the back, Judge Billy Smith ends up on the ground with Antonio Cromartie

Cromartie has got man coverage here. He grabs Washington. Washington's got to slow down for the ball

and Smith is just not able to get out of the way

You can see he's trying to backpedal, and both of these guys end up on top of him

Normally, the officials have better ball awareness than that and are able to get out of the way

and for some reason, I don't know if Billy Smith lost sight of the football. Just under a minute remaining in this first half rounds going no huddle, but we get an official timeout one of the officials down

Got hit by Antonio Cromartie. He was going off the field. He looks like he caught him right in the face part of his shoulder pad

Obviously an inadvertent shot there All right, Cormadi was trying to get off to the Jets' sideline

Talk about a dangerous occupation. That's why those, the door had you go

this is gonna hurt when you do it, doesn't it? That's not second and eight now

Backpack and accepted. Throwing right at Jimmy Smith. And now the ball pops three

Scrambled for the ball inside the five. He's got it. Well, Brandon Ayan Bidetto certainly has it now, and he officially gets credit for it

And Ron Winter the official is down on his knees The referee Ron Winter not up yet Well it was a rookie mistake followed by another rookie mistake

because Jimmy Smith was carrying that football away from his body and didn't feel coming from behind

Simpson popped it out and Ron Winter just got buried. Oh! and then of course he's underneath the scrum going for the football and ron winter all but disappears

and they hit on zay flowers jackson is going into the end zone

and i think jackson slipped over the umpire happens in the end zone it's a safety in the

first points of the night. Well, they dial up a blitz. Fred Warner, he's got a free run

There's the official going down. Cops at that point. Oh, man. They haven't so far as Heineke

avoids pressure and heaves it deep. Samuel, the official start. And Samuel makes the catch

You're running down the football field. You see Vytom right there runs into the official. He's just, Samuel just finds

a way in there. The Viking offensive player trying to get him to the ground

Percy Harvin on the return for the Vikings. Harvin across midfield. Puts back inside

Oh, Jeffrey, you're going to get in trouble on this one. The second kickoff return for a touchdown

this season by the rookie out of Florida, Percy Harvin. 88 yards

And a Vikings touchdown. You want to answer a big play with a big play

We just saw it right here. One of the officials knocked over during the return

Jeff Reed has an opportunity to just have this be a good return

Percy Harvin hits it on the fly Here your opportunity for a tackle What is that Are you kidding me Oh man that was horrendous You gotta wrap it up Act like a And there where the official gets bumped

He gets hit hard. Hope that he's okay. But... Two-yard line. He batted it forward, actually

You okay, you alright? Take a look at Mike Carey, our referee, who gets caught in the action

As that ball comes out, it bounces off of Reese. Then Reese runs him down

Well, the umpire back in the original position at the closing minutes of the half

Oh, boy. That hurt. I think the stripes threw him off. He saw another set of stripes

He figured, I'll just throw it in there. That's tough for those guys. You know, that's heavy-duty Tay in there

I was expecting. He opens up the door for Dominic Rodgers Cromartie

and you're not going to catch it. Romo pulls it down and will throw it away

Bradford has to scramble. And the pass is caught by Kyle Rue

Chargers in Baltimore, 4-1. First down run as Sean Green runs through the umpire

and gets out to the 40-yard line. Last five minutes of regulation

the umpire has to move back in the hole, and that's the reason they took him out of that spot

and Fred Bryan took the worst of that. Watch the referee in the middle of the screen

Whoa. Fred took a shot there. He's lucky Rashad Jones pulls his right leg out of there

That's what he would have taken a flush, square shot. He talking about safety all the time the players put a helmet he took a shot right there John He sure hey get to the quarterback here That got takes off running the football

Whoa, I don't think this is gonna work out. Well, they'll be on the clock. This they were playing for it. Oh my gosh

official gets in the way Under pressure he needs one trying to lead another

runs over an official and throws. You know, you've got a free rusher there

It's an easy play for Kareem. He runs by him and then makes another defender miss

And then, oh. Over the top and the guy can go right underneath you. The first doesn't make sense either

Bolger, a pass underneath is complete. And the official gets in the way and makes the tackle

Oh, boy. Putt by Kenneth Darby over the middle. And the tackle really made

He beat the Mid-Carolina earlier this year. He needs 88 yards for 1,000. Oh, those tricky shanks

Flea Flicker. Joe's a little big horn wide open, but oh no, it's Phil Luckett

Phil Luckett is down the field and inadvertently gets it. Well, perfectly set up Flea Flicker

Phil Luckett gets in the way, just can't get out of the way of Joe Horn, and you just look at the look on his face

Just a three-man rush. Romo with all day. Corner of the end zone

Defender slips incomplete. Watch the official throw his hat on the right side of your screen

He throws his hat right in the path of Ogletree, who steps on it

Lucky to blow out an ACL, goes down to the ground. Third and fourth

Garrard, over the middle, had it batted back, incomplete. Or hit the umpire

Oh! Oh, my lord, he hit Garth DeFelice, the umpire. Right in the side of the hit

He's going to take this. He turns a little bit at the last minute

but it looks like it hits him right in the ear. A lot of it is youth, is key positions

On first down, pass hits the official. Incomplete. He had to call that incomplete

Cutler steps up, just throws it with his left hand. Incomplete. Cutler is not a left-handed guy here

He's just trying to get that ball out of there before he takes that set

With no timeouts remaining, would it kill the first half