{"id":8380,"date":"2013-11-22T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nfl-suspends-official-for-abusive-language\/"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T18:19:00","slug":"nfl-suspends-official-for-abusive-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nfl-suspends-official-for-abusive-language\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL suspends official for abusive language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; NFL official Roy Ellison was suspended one game without pay by the league on Friday for making profane remarks to Washington offensive tackle Trent Williams during last week&#8217;s game between the Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison was found to have made a derogatory statement to Williams while working as the umpire for the Redskins&#8217; 24-16 loss to Philadelphia this past Sunday. NFL.com reported Friday that Ellison had been previously accused of confronting and swearing at players, which violates the league&#8217;s collective bargaining agreement with the Referees Association.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Hall, normally part of referee Ed Hochuli&#8217;s crew, will take Ellison&#8217;s place on Walt Coleman&#8217;s group for this week&#8217;s set of games. Hall had been scheduled to have the weekend off.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison&#8217;s suspension is the first of an on-field official since Jack Fette was reprimanded for conduct towards the fans during a game between Seattle and Cincinnati in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; NFL official Roy Ellison was suspended one game without pay by the league on Friday for making profane remarks to Washington offensive tackle Trent Williams during last week&#8217;s game between the Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles. Ellison was found to have made a derogatory statement to Williams while working as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}