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The NFL has been reticent to adopt the now-defunct AAF and XFL's reliance on sky judges to help correct (or affirm) referees' decisions.
That may no longer be the case, however, as John Kryk of the Toronto Sun reported news from a source that the NFL Competition Committee "endorses the sky-judge concept, after opposing it for years."
XFL head of officiating (and former NFL head of officiating) Dean Blandino also spoke with Kryk and said the following:
"The competition committee had an abbreviated conference call—obviously, with what's going on they can't meet in person as they normally would—but they had a call last week some time, and they went through all the rules proposals.