{"id":81346,"date":"2026-11-14T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/nfl-referee-faces-112-mile-dash-on-double-duty-sunday-after-faa-ground-stop\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:54:53","slug":"nfl-referee-faces-112-mile-dash-on-double-duty-sunday-after-faa-ground-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/nfl-referee-faces-112-mile-dash-on-double-duty-sunday-after-faa-ground-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL referee faces 112-mile dash on double-duty Sunday after FAA ground stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Don Willard faces 112-mile trip between NFL games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>NBA scrambles to replace referees stranded by delays<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>College football games postponed as teams struggle<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An NFL official will work two games on the same day Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide for several hours Friday, disrupting travel plans for professional and college teams across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Don Willard will officiate the Miami Dolphins\u2019 game against the Indianapolis Colts at 1pm ET before traveling 112 miles east to work the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 Sunday Night Football matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/14\/nfl-referee-two-games-faa-ground-stop-sports-travel-disruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Willard faces 112-mile trip between NFL games NBA scrambles to replace referees stranded by delays College football games postponed as teams struggle An NFL official will work two games on the same day Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide for several hours Friday, disrupting travel plans for professional and college &#8230; <a title=\"NFL referee faces 112-mile dash on double-duty Sunday after FAA ground stop\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/nfl-referee-faces-112-mile-dash-on-double-duty-sunday-after-faa-ground-stop\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NFL referee faces 112-mile dash on double-duty Sunday after FAA ground stop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}